Bradfield, Scott - Elizabeth Young (review date 29 January 1993)
Elizabeth Young (review date 29 January 1993)
SOURCE: Young, Elizabeth. “Weird Trips.” New Statesman and Society 6 (29 January 1993): 47-8.
[In the following review of Greetings from Earth, Young asserts that Bradfield's stories are a joy to read, whether ironic and cutting or disturbing and disorienting.]
Spalding Gray and Scott Bradfield are both writers who are extremely sophisticated about fiction. They know exactly what it is and what it should do, how it should be constructed, written and read. They also seem to have a faint, sad sense that most of it will soon be forgotten, that it is all perhaps a doomed endeavour, yet both continue to believe that people need stories. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” wrote Joan Didion, and Gray's first novel turns on this realisation.
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Scott Bradfield is an unusual writer in that he is equally adept at criticism and fiction. His stories have a...
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