Host Ken Jones talks with Bradley K. Rosen, author of the novel Bunkie Spills, which chronicles one very long and eventful day in the life of a group of Los Angeles teenagers in 1976. The book was selected as a Powell’s Bookstore Staff Top Five Pick for 2017.
Bradley’s work has appeared in Frozen Moment, Portland Review, Nailed Magazine, and City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, an anthology edited by Gigi Little and published by Forest Avenue Press, which we featured on Between the Covers last year. He was also a long-time participant in the Dangerous Writing workshop, under the mentorship of Portland’s preeminent writing teacher Tom Spanbauer.
Bradley spent the better part of his adult life as a rock and roll musician touring the U.S., starting in 1982 playing drums with the rock/reggae band Little Women. He later joined Little Women’s guitarist, Jerry Joseph, in the band Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons. Bradley now lives in Portland and still plays music, performing with several local orchestras.
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