Fiction. Compact Disc. Stories that bounce back and forth across the Pacific as if it were a mud puddle: 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 six-figure book advance on a harelip... an obese janitor in a Mormon prayer hall wedges himself behind the organ pipes, dies, and "fills the joint with green corpse steam..." Meanwhile, in China... A Palestinian medical student gets chained to a conveyor belt in a Manchurian abortion mill... a former Red Guard returns from rustication only to find his comrades running a bourgeois beauty salon called Syjvester Stajjone's... an American "foreign expert" hijacks a beggar's wheelchair and steals a baby...

Author City: Nagasaki JAP

Tom Bradley's FISSION AMONG THE FANATICS (Spuyten Duyvil Press, NYC) was named Nonfiction Book of the Year 2007 by 3:AM Magazine. Various of his novels have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award and the New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in the AWP Award Series in the Novel. Reviews and excerpts, a couple hours of recorded readings, plus links to Tom's essays in Salon.com and other such high-tone swanky magazines, are at tombradley.org.

Reviews and Other Links
http://www.corpse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=377&Itemid=1
http://www.thedrillpress.com/pam/2009-05-15/pam-2009-05-15-dog-mstoker.shtml
http://bit.ly/gentlyREAD
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=6805
http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/2009/11/tom-bradleys-even-dog-wont-touch-me.html