Bradley Sands
Encyclopedia
Bradley Sands is an American
author and editor currently living in Portland, Oregon
. He is involved in the Bizarro
movement in underground literature
with Steve Aylett
, Chris Genoa
, Carlton Mellick III
and D. Harlan Wilson
.
Sands is the author of the novel, It Came from Below the Belt (Afterbirth Books, 2006). His work has been described as absurd
, comedic, and transgressive
. His influences include Steve Aylett
, Mark Leyner
, Woody Allen
, Raymond Chandler
, and the movie, Airplane!
He received an &Now Award for Innovative Fiction.
Sands is also the editor-in-chief of the literary journal, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, which has been described as "the figurehead publication for the Bizarro
, Absurdist
, and modern Surrealist literary movements."
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
author and editor currently living in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. He is involved in the Bizarro
Bizarro fiction
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often utilizes elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive works that are as weird and entertaining as possible. The term was adopted in 2005 by the...
movement in underground literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
with Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett is a satirical science fiction and slipstream author of several bizarro books. He is renowned for his colorful satire attacking the manipulations of authority, and for having reams of amusing epigrams and non-sequiturs only tangentially related to what little linear plot the books...
, Chris Genoa
Chris Genoa
Chris Genoa is an American novelist. He is most known for his small press bestseller Foop! , a bizarre science fiction comedy...
, Carlton Mellick III
Carlton Mellick III
Carlton Mellick III is an American author currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He is best known as one of the leading authors in the 'Bizarro' movement in underground literature....
and D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson is an American short-story writer and novelist whose body of work has been associated with the genres of irrealism, science fiction, fantasy, horror, bizarro fiction, megalofiction, splatterpunk, absurdism, literary fiction, ultraviolence, and postmodernism...
.
Sands is the author of the novel, It Came from Below the Belt (Afterbirth Books, 2006). His work has been described as absurd
Absurdism
In philosophy, "The Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any...
, comedic, and transgressive
Transgressional fiction
Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual and/or illicit ways. Because they are rebelling against the basic norms of society, protagonists of transgressional...
. His influences include Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett is a satirical science fiction and slipstream author of several bizarro books. He is renowned for his colorful satire attacking the manipulations of authority, and for having reams of amusing epigrams and non-sequiturs only tangentially related to what little linear plot the books...
, Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner is an American postmodernist author.Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction. His stories are generally humorous and absurd: In The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Mark's father survives a lethal injection at the hands of the New Jersey penal system, and...
, Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
, Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...
, and the movie, Airplane!
Airplane!
Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures...
He received an &Now Award for Innovative Fiction.
Sands is also the editor-in-chief of the literary journal, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, which has been described as "the figurehead publication for the Bizarro
Bizarro fiction
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often utilizes elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive works that are as weird and entertaining as possible. The term was adopted in 2005 by the...
, Absurdist
Absurdist fiction
Absurdist fiction is a genre of literature, most often employed in novels, plays or poems, that focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events...
, and modern Surrealist literary movements."
Books
- It Came from Below the Belt (2006)
- Falling from the Sky (Contributing Author, 2007)
- The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue) (Contributing Author, 2008)
- & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing (Contributing Author, 2009)
- My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes! (2010)
- Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy (2010)
- Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You (2011)
- Please Do Not Shoot Me In The Face (2011)