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Arthur Bradford is an O Henry Award winning writer and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. His writing has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Vice, Men's Journal, and many other publications. His first book, Dogwalker, was published by Knopf and Vintage paperback in 2002, and has been translated into ten languages. His latest book, Benny's Brigade, is a children's book, published by McSweeney's in Sept. 2012.
Bradford is also the creator and director of the acclaimed "How's Your News?" documentary series, versions of which have been broadcast on HBO/Cinemax, PBS, and Channel Four England. He developed the concept into a series for MTV which ran throughout 2009. A new film in the series, "Election 2012" was released Oct. 2012 and can be seen in full at howsyournews.com. In 2011 Bradford directed the Emmy-nominated documentary, "Six Days to Air", about the making of South Park, for Comedy Central.
Bradford lives in Portland, Oregon and serves as co-director of Camp Jabberwocky, the nation's longest running residential summer camp for people with disabilities.
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Q: Your stories have appeared in McSweeney's and Esquire, but
this is your first published collection. How long have you been working on this
project, and what was it like to gather your stories together? Did you write new
stories specifically for this collection?
A: Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years
ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I
have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've
held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time. I've also written
a lot more stories than this, but these were the ones which I thought might work
as a collection. I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant
throughout, so that there's a little unity. About six months ago I went through
all my stories and sorted out the ones which might fit into this category and
this is pretty much what I came up with. The first story I wrote with this type
of narrator was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry
Collection, so that gave me some confidence to try some more. Gathering
these stories together was fun, but I realized when I read them that I have
certain mental ...
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