Bradley Spinelli’s latest novel is the noir The Painted Gun (Akashic 2017). His debut novel Killing Williamsburg launched with a live set by DJ Questlove, won the 2013 Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors, and was excerpted in Sensitive Skin and Ampersand Review. 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 and Mandy Boles. Under the name J.D. Oxblood, he co-founded the world-renowned burlesque magazine Burlesque Beat, and has contributed to 21st Century Burlesque, Burlesque Magazine, Zelda, and the Shakespeare journal Borrowers & Lenders.