William Bradley: the links
“And who, for that matter, will remember me?”
I didn’t know William Bradley except through his words. He came to my attention as a writer who had moved to my old hometown. This was enough to make him a person of interest.
First I read The Bald and the Beautiful (because, well, the title). Then a bit more. Then pretty much everything.*
After noticing that his website has also slipped away, I put together the following page of links. It seemed the least I could do for the man who gave us You’re a Wonder.
The opening quote is from Bradley’s essay ‘On Soap Operas, or, We Read and Watch Our Stories in Order to Live’. I could no longer find it online, but offer my thanks to Kari for posting about it so I could get the quote right.
Absolute Beginners, With So Much at Stake
Inside Higher Ed
June 2, 2017
The Academy in Peril?
Inside Higher Ed
March 3, 2016
The Accidental Ann Landers
JSTOR [preview]
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
Spring 2016
Acquiring Empathy through Essays
Utne Reader
October 25, 2013
The Admiring Ignorant
Inside Higher Ed
January 31, 2012
An Entire Universe of Ideas: More Reality Hunger
Brevity
March 2010
And Never Show Thy Head By Day Nor Light
Burlesque Press
May 20, 2013
As One Might Expect
Ars Medica
Spring 2006
The Bald and the Beautiful
Bellevue Literary Review
Spring 2005
Brick
Pine Hills Review
July 20, 2016
Burning
Stonecoast Review [page 45]
Fall 2013
Cathode
Sweet: A Literary Confection
The Collected Voice of the Vice President of Academic Affairs
Stirring: A Literary Collective
December 2015
Could Have Sworn it was Judgement Day
Barrelhouse Review
May 3, 2016
Crisis on Earth-33!
LA Review of Books
August 18, 2015
The Dawn of “Just Me”: Zack Snyder’s Neoliberal Superheroes
LA Review of Books
June 3, 2016
Death of a Superhero
Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
December 2014
Dislocated
The Normal School
Dream Child: A Reverie
Sweet: A Literary Confection [PDF page 37]
Entomological Ascendance
The Molotov Cocktail
May 2014
The Essayist’s Creed
Passages North
October 2013
The Ethical Exhibitionist’s Agenda: Honesty and Fairness in Creative Nonfiction
JSTOR [preview]
College English
November 2007
Fathoming Family
LA Review of Books
December 4, 2014
Fear
Full Grown People
April 15, 2014
First Thing
Full Grown People
December 20, 2013
Force
Passages North
Winter 2008
Getting Real: Teaching Creative Nonfiction
July 2016
Graphic Memoirs Come of Age
JSTOR [preview]
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
Spring 2013
Ham’s Lesson
Sundog Lit
How We Got Our Dog
Bluestem
Julio At Large
Brevity
The 750 Project: Julio at Large (revisited)
Brevity
September 21, 2017
Just Imagine
The Normal School
The Last Book I Loved: The Way We Weren’t
The Rumpus
August 25, 2015
A Legacy of Horror
LA Review of Books
October 31, 2015
Liberals Against Themselves: Getting Joan Didion’s Point
2Paragraphs
July 2014
Life On Mars + Devil’s Racetrack
with Emily Isaacson
Pacifica
January 21, 2013
Like Predicting the Weather
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 29, 2007
Look! Up in the Sky!
The Normal School
Marked
Cleaver Magazine
Men of Yesterday
The Normal School
More Thoughts on The Fourth Genre… Whatever You Want to Call It
Incertus
November 2007
My Message to Senator Rob Portman
Facebook
June 28, 2017
My penis size obsession: All my life I’ve worried about measuring up
Salon
January 4, 2016
On Gender and Genre: The Nonfiction Count
Brevity
February 22, 2011
On Soap Operas, or, We Read and Watch Our Stories in Order to Live
Turns out it was on the Wayback Machine. You may have to highlight the text to be able to read it.
On the Pleasure of Hazlitt
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
Once More to the Quad
Inside Higher Ed
February 12, 2013
Our Present Business is General Woe
Inside Higher Ed
October 14, 2016
Our Night Before Christmas
Brevity
December 19, 2014
Our Nights Before Christmas
Brevity
December 21, 2016
Playtime
Saw Palm [PDF page 79]
Spring 2009
Putting the “Creative” in Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
August 2015
Reconsidering Revenge: How Revenge of the Nerds’ Misogyny Is Evident In Current Nerd Culture
The Mary Sue
April 3, 2015
Resources for Finding Great Essays
Utne Reader
November 25, 2013
A Review of Joey Franklin’s ‘My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married’
Brevity
December 22, 2015
(here’s another good review)
Shelter
Burlesque Press
May 27, 2013
Snow Blind
Survivor’s Review
Winter 2010
Some Thoughts on the Passing of a Great Professor
Facebook
October 18, 2015
Some Thoughts That Nobody Should Care About, Really
Facebook
April 23, 2017
The Square Root of True
roundtable discussion
Creative Nonfiction
Fall 13/Winter 14
Take to the Sky
Caravel Journal
Tales of a Multiverse in Peril!
Pinterest
To My Brothers and Sisters in the Not-Real-Deal Business
The Missouri Review
March 11, 2015
Traditional Holiday Recipe
Full Grown People
June 26, 2014
Unnatural
Academia
Watchmen up Close: An Interview with Andrew Hoberek
Sequart
June 13, 2015
We Try
The Essay Review
What the Survey Doesn’t Say
Antique Children
December 2009
Who Is the “You”? Understanding Second Person
[preview]
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
Fall 2013
Who Will Save Us Now? Dirty Realistic Fiction, Grim and Gritty Superhero Comic Books, and the Legacy of 1986
Sequart
June 16, 2015
With a Sigh
Inside Higher Ed
May 29, 2015
With Great Privilege Comes Great Responsibility: Being A Good Feminist Ally
The Mary Sue
March 31, 2015
With Reflection, Without Fear
LA Review of Books
June 17, 2017
You’re a Wonder
Bending Genre
September 9, 2013
The Worst That Can Happen
Inside Higher Ed
October 3, 2014
About
CNF Conversations: An Interview with William Bradley
Writing. Life.
October 13, 2015
’Berg couple finds support during health crisis
Heidelberg
June 13, 2017
Dear Hiring Committee
Facebook
August 28, 2017
Faith, Fear, and Fractals
April 8, 2016
Fractals
New Orleans Review
Guest Review: ‘Fractals,’ an Essay Collection by William Bradley
Inside Higher Ed
January 9, 2016
An Interview with William Bradley by Jill Talbot
Essay Daily
May 9, 2016
A Tribute to William Bradley
Full Grown People
August 30, 2017
William Bradley, a Brilliant Essayist Gone Too Soon
Brevity
August 28, 2017
Writing community honors one of its own
Heidelberg University
February 1, 2018
*At least what came up in searches, starting with the late williambradleyessayist.com. Not especially being a fan of the superhero genre, I skimmed at times. Happily he did direct my attention to Jessica Jones, who would doubtless disagree she’s worth a Netflix binge.
William Bradley died exactly 100 years after Jack Kirby was born.
