SCOTT BRADFIELD
Scott Bradfield is a novelist, short story writer, and critic who currently lives in London and San Luis Obispo. A retired professor of English at the University of Connecticut, his books include The History of Luminous Motion (1989), Animal Planet (1995), The People Who Watched Her Pass By (2010), and, most recently, Why I Hate Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: Several Decades of Reading Unwisely (2014) and Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog (2017).
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Lost and Found: Reading Joan Didion in California
Scott Bradfield reviews the Library of America edition of Joan Didion’s early novels and essays.
The End of Oz: Reflections on the Centenary of L. Frank Baum’s Death
Scott Bradfield on the pleasures and perils of the “Oz” series.
The Whole Deck of Cards: Reading Paperback Noir with My Mom
Scott Bradfield revisits Erle Stanley Gardner’s Cool and Lam novels from the 1930s and ’40s, three of which have been republished by Hard Case Crime.
Donald E. Westlake: The Writer’s Writer’s Writer
Scott Bradfield celebrates the late Donald E. Westlake.