Scott Michael Bradfield (born April 27, 1955) is an American essayist, critic and fiction writer who resides in

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, England. He has taught at the

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and has reviewed for ''

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''. He is best known, however, for his short stories, of which he has had four collections published. The 1998 film '' Luminous Motion'', for which he wrote the screenplay, was based on his first novel, ''The History of Luminous Motion'' (1989). Bradfield also operates a public

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, where he uploads videos on a variety of books and literary topics. Bradfield
St. Mary's University
and

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Bibliography

Novels

* , location=London , publisher=Bloomsbury , year=1989 * * ''Animal Planet'' New York: Picador USA, 1995. * ''Good Girl Wants It Bad'' New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. * ''The People Who Watched Her Pass By'' Columbus, Ohio: Two Dollar Radio, 2010. * * ''Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog'': 2016,

Short fiction

;Collections * ''The Secret Life of Houses'' London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. * ''Dream of the Wolf'' New York: Knopf, 1990. * ''Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories'' New York: Picador USA, 1996. * ''Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance'' New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

Criticism

''Dreaming Revolution: Transgression in the Development of American Romance''
Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 1993. * ''Why I Hate Toni Morrison's Beloved'': First presented as the Seymour Fischer Lecture at the

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, on January 17, 2001. It was revised and expanded and published in the ''

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'' and later reprinted onlin

Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (2016):

References

External links

* *Enote
'Bradfield, Scott Introduction'
*Strong, Benjami
'The Gloriously Irresponsible Career of Scott Bradfield'
*Bradfield, Scot

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