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Bradley Spinelli’s latest novel is The Painted Gun (Akashic 2017), nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America 2018 Shamus award for Best PI Paperback Original (“a talent to watch” — Publishers Weekly). The book enjoyed an 11-city tour including an immersive event with City Lights Books. His debut novel, Killing Williamsburg (“sharp and stylish prose” —Publishers Weekly), launched with a live set by DJ Questlove and was excerpted in Sensitive Skin, Ampersand Review, and The Unbearables’ 2017 anthology. He is the writer/director of the film #AnnieHall, which the Village Voice called “fascinating.”

Spinelli contributes to New York magazine’s Bedford + Bowery and has penned guest posts for Writer’s Digest, Prose n Cons, and others. Under the name J.D. Oxblood, he co-founded the world-renowned burlesque magazine Burlesque Beat.

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Professionally, Bradley Spinelli has done metal work for the installation in The New York Times building, slimed salmon in Alaska, and run away with the circus. Recreationally, he’s been diving with sharks, motorcycled the Mae Hong Son loop, and seen Komodo dragons in the wild. He was born in North Dakota and has lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since 1999.

Spinelli’s most recent novel is the noir The Painted Gun (Akashic 2017), nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America 2018 Shamus award for Best PI Paperback Original, and a semifinalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition. The book’s 11-city 2017 tour included the Texas Book Festival (including a Noir at the Bar reading), the Miami Book Festival, the Virginia Festival of the Book, the Bay Area Book Festival, and the San Antonio Book Festival; readings at Book Soup (Los Angeles), Deep Vellum (Dallas), and Faulkner House (New Orleans); a Naked Girls Reading event in Chicago; a launch party in Brooklyn with a burlesque show and free tacos from Dos Toros (“best things to do in NYC” —TONY); AND a Subterranean SF event with City Lights Books in San Francisco—an immersive event, filmed surveillance-style.

Spinelli’s debut novel Killing Williamsburg was published with a launch party featuring a live set by DJ Questlove. The book won the 2013 Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors and was excerpted in The Ampersand Review and in Sensitive Skin with photos by Ruby Ray. Publishers Weekly called it “sharp and stylish prose,” and The Awl called it “the first visionary neo-Romantic novel of the 21st century.” It was excerpted in The Unbearables’ 2017 compilation From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream.

Spinelli wrote and directed the film #AnnieHall, which the Village Voice called “fascinating.” He was a principal actor in Matt Zoller Seitz’s well-received independent film Home (various festivals). He also wrote and directed the short film Kind of Blue (Dallas Video Festival). Spinelli’s play Elusive was presented by the National New Playwrights Network in Denver and stage-read at 13th Street Rep (NYC). His play Ifni was workshopped by Overlap (NYC), and his one-act Pretty Mouth was produced at the Duplex. He also wrote spec scripts for the scuba diving romance film Blueness and the heist The Cool Side of the Pillow.

Spinelli published the short story CHUCHOS, and his short fiction has also been published by Sparkle Street Press and Le Chat Noir. He competed in Canteen Magazine’s first flash fiction write-off versus Dana Goodyear, and has penned guest posts for Writer’s DigestMandy Boles, Frontier Psychiatrist, Prose ‘n Consand The Page 69 Test. He contributes to New York Magazine’s Bedford + Bowery.

Under the pen name J.D. Oxblood, Spinelli co-founded the world-renowned burlesque magazine Burlesque Beat, and has contributed to 21st Century Burlesque, Burlesque Magazine, Zelda, and the academic journal Borrowers & Lenders. He has hosted burlesque and literary salons, and performed at storyteller series Lost and Found and The Moth. In the Burlesque Top 50 he was voted #10 in non-performing men for 2014, and #7 for 2015.

Spinelli is a dedicated world traveler and avid scuba diver, accomplished DJ, and amateur mixologist. He still wants a dog.

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Bradley Spinelli is the author of the noir The Painted Gun and the novel Killing Williamsburg. He wrote and directed the film #AnnieHalland contributes to Bedford + Bowery.

“Let the sky be blue.”

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Spinelli w/Charly Bivona in #AnnieHall – photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

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Bradley Spinelli author photo, Guatemala – Photo by Ronit Schlam

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Spinelli performing at Lost & Found – photo by Nicola Bailey

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Spinelli – Photo By Claudia Paul

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J.D. Oxblood onstage – photo by Melody Mudd

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Spinelli with Questlove at the Killing Williamsburg Launch – photo by Monty Leman

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Spinelli w/Matt Holtzclaw in #AnnieHall – photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

Spinelli w/Matt Holtzclaw, #AnnieHall, photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

Spinelli – still from Kind of Blue

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J.D. Oxblood with Melody Mudd at Burlesque Hall of Fame – photo by Francine Daveta

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Spinelli Author photo – by Kimberlee Hewitt

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Spinelli with Questlove posters for Killing Williamsburg launch party on Bedford+N7

Spinelli with Questlove posters on Bedford+N7

Spinelli – DJ shot – photo by Mindy Tucker

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Spinelli headshot – photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

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J.D. Oxblood in #AnnieHall – photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

Hashtag Annie Hall Film by JD Oxblood http://hashtaganniehall.nyc/

Spinelli – Killing Williamsburg Launch Party – photo by Monty Leman

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Spinelli – setting up a shot with cinematographer Andrew Trost on set of #AnnieHall – photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

Hashtag Annie Hall Film by JD Oxblood http://hashtaganniehall.nyc/

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