Tom Bradley is an American novelist, essayist and writer of short stories. He is the author of The Sam Edwine Pentateuch, a five-book series, various volumes of which have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award, the New York University Bobst Prize, and the AWP Award Series in the Novel. His essays and short stories are anthologized extensively in America and in Europe. He resides in Japan.
'The stories in New Cross-Fucked Musings - exist less in some disputed demilitarized zone between fact and fiction than the much more interesting hinterland between fact, drunken fabrications, sideshow myths, misspent childhood reminiscence, fantastical speculations, psychological imbalances and outright lies. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story and good stories these largely are. They're nonfiction in the sense your dreams and nightmares are nonfiction, made up of fragments and contortions of actual experiences and emotions. Not so much the cracked looking glass approach as the hall of mirrors...Truth isn't the point here. The story and it's telling are everything...You come away feeling you've spent time with some very odd, enigmatic, sometimes not entirely pleasant but nevertheless unique characters. Just be careful which one you take home. I'd suggest meeting in a public place, well lit. Bring tear gas or a taser, just in case.' --Darran Anderson, 3:AM Magazine.
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