Tom Bradley

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1995
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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The Brightside Bunch

Crowded House (May-1996)
Double Dilemma (May-1996)
Trading Spaces (Jun-1996)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Acting Alone

    Kansas college professor Sam Edwine comes up with a great get-rich-quick scheme: he will ghostwrite the memoirs of Sgt. Spikey Wamsutter, former Iranian hostage and cousin of Shannon, a student for whom Sam lusts...

  • Baker's Dozen

  • Crowded House

    The Brightside Bunch

  • Double Dilemma

    The Brightside Bunch

  • Trading Spaces

    The Brightside Bunch

  • Black Class Cur

  • Kara-Kun, Flip-Kun

    This two-part novel is set in Hiroshima, fifty years after the fact. The title character of Kara-Kun was in utero at the moment of the atom bomb's detonation, and is mentally deficient, like many such "bomb babies." His hobby is disrupting weddings a...

  • Killing Bryce

  • Lemur

    Damnation and Salvation in the American Food Services Industry Spencer Sproul is a would-be serial-killing bus boy who can't manage to murder, injure, or even scare anybody. He longs to follow in the footsteps of his heroes, Ted Bundy and John Wayne ...



  • Even the Dog Won't Touch Me

    Fiction. Short Stories. A seven-foot-tall member of the Greatest Generation gets to stay home from World War II and fornicate with his friends' wives... sexually ambiguous creatures lay a sixfigure book advance on a harelip... an obese janitor in a M...

  • Vital Fluid

    Two parallel story lines are distanced by time and culture in this satiric alternate history, modern fantasy exploration. Rival hypnotists are pitted against each other in an increasingly bizarre series of performances across an absurdly chaotic Amer...

  • Calliope's Boy

    A lapsed Mormon banjoist losing his mind on the London tube... A Japanese language teacher being fisted in the Utah desert by Uncompahgre Indians while their squaws gnaw on his fingers... An acid-addled fourteen-year-old's brain dalliance with an old...

  • Bomb Baby

    The bomb baby was in Hiroshima, in utero, at the moment of the glamorous detonation. As a result of prenatal exposure to gamma rays, he is tiny and mentally deficient, but his physical vigor is unimpaired. Living on a makeshift raft on the river that...

  • Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch

    In the middle of the Adriatic Sea during Neronic times, in Hiroshima Cathedral's demon-infested basement, in the royal elephant stables of a Hindustani town three millennia ago, in a Tokyo AIDS hospice disguised as a derelict kindergarten, on a y...

  • A Pleasure Jaunt With One of the Sex Workers Who Don't Exist in the People's Republic of China

    Tom Bradley received his novelist's calling at the age of nineteen. He climbed into the moonlit mountains around his hometown, where he got an unambiguous vocation with physical symptoms and everything, just like Martin Luther in the electric storm. ...

  • Felicia's Nose

    Felicia's Nose was written by our late Founder, Carol Novack, annotated by Tom Bradley, and illustrated by Nick Patterson. We present to you the Annotator's Note that introduces the book:"At the end of her life, Carol Novack was d...

  • Three Screenplays

    Here are three screenplays collected in print for the first time, from the prolific bizarro genius Tom Bradley. Each screenplay is adapted from a novel of the same name. Lemur - damnation and salvation in the food services industry. Vital Fluid - riv...

  • Elmer Crowley

    Bless me, curse me. For better or worse, my fallopian fall into matter. . . After making careful preparations to ensure himself a proper reincarnation, the dying ALEISTER CROWLEY flubs one syllable of the magickal incantation . . . and comes back as ...

  • New Cross-F*cked Musings on a Manic Reality

    Who are the Enigmatic Polygeneration? They were christened by Tom Bradley in chapter four of Put It Down in a Book, as follows: Digital connectivity has rendered physical locality irrelevant and made polyversality the new thing . . . Once space ha...



  • My Hands Were Clean

    Read about Tom Bradley's teenage gig performing grotesquely on the harp at a geothermal spa, deep in the savage Utah desert.The place is run by a coven of polygamist Kali-worshipping tantric orgiasts who sell fake Crowley memorabilia to rock star Jim...

  • The Curved Jewels

    In THE CURVED JEWELS, the Crown Princess of Japan gets tired of her living-death in the Imperial Palace, and escapes with the help of a couple of shady American expatriates. The world knows this woman as a brilliant linguist and career diplomat who s...

  • Family Romance

    From Patterson's unconsciousness a hundred images geyser forth. Observing no order, acknowledging no linguistic import, they loom up in Bradley's face and gradually coalesce into this--Family Romance--whose narrator abides with his rapacious mother a...

  • Hustling the East

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    Three novels of contemporary Japan, featuring that disgruntled expatriate, Sam Edwine...

    Kara-kun is set in Hiroshima, fifty years after the fact, where Sam brings the foreign community face-to-face with the Japanese Mafia.

    In Flip-kun, Sam is ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tom Bradley has published 23 books.

Tom Bradley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Family Romance, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Tom Bradley, Acting Alone, was published in January 1995.

Yes. Tom Bradley has 1 series.
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