Re-upping for the morning shift, partly to remind myself of today’s goal, but mostly to hype the work of my friend the late Bill Bradley. If you love writers who write movingly & hilariously about comics (hi @enthusiamy), soap operas, love, death, & more, you would love Bill.
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Some of my favorites that I am turning to today with fresh, wet eyes: “Cathode,” a flash essay about teenage boys, #DnD, and all the things we don’t see until it’s too late:
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“Death of a Superhero” another devastating memoir in miniature. foliateoak.com/william-bradle…
“Dream Child: A Reverie” — Bill in conversation with 19C writer Charles Lamb and Alan Moore’s “For the Man Who Has Everything,” with Garbage Paul Kids for good measure
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“First Thing” — one of the zillions of weird & specific & wonderful ways Bill wrote about his love for his wife Emily (@Emily_Isaacson, who I also adore with my whole heart).
fullgrownpeople.com/2013/12/20/fir…
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“Reconsidering Revenge: How Revenge Of The Nerds‘ Misogyny Is Evident In Current Nerd Culture” (2015) for @TheMarySue — which has a solid count of reactionary comments that shows his depiction of toxic nerd culture past & present (including citation of @GailSimone) hit home.
Finally (for now), "The Bald and the Beautiful" which was named a 2005 Notable Essay in Best American -- you can read it here, and see how he weaves the personal with such imaginative empathy for working actors, his loved ones, & his own mortality scribd.com/document/34033…
His debut book of essays, Fractals, can still be purchased here: lavenderink.org/site/shop/frac…
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