Background
Len Bracken was born on January 5, 1961 at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, United States to the family of Tony Bracken and Martha Ella Dobarzynski.
Len Bracken graduated from Leysin American School in Switzerland in 1978.
Len Bracken graduated from Universite Paris-Sorbonne with Bachelor of Arts in 1979.
Len Bracken is a graduate of George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs and has a professional editing certificate from the same university.
(There's a growing trend in the modern imaginative novel t...)
There's a growing trend in the modern imaginative novel to mimic the rapidfire intercut of information in our media age, collaging together a sort of holographic hyperdimensional text rather than plotting a simple linear story. I think of Moorcock's Cornealius Chronicles, Shea & Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy, and Scholz & Harcourt's Palimpsests on the professional scale, and the work of such writers as Don Webb, Misha and Mink Mole in the small presses. Well, this book is an unexpectedly delightful addition to the genre (which, in case you have any doubt, is one I appreciate very much).
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1990
(After years of ideological training, the Stasi agent with...)
After years of ideological training, the Stasi agent with an eye on the gun scope thought of her as a fascist body he longed to socialize. Len Bracken is a writer living in Washington, DC. Originally published by the porno-publisher Masquerade under the title Stasi Slut, this is the integral version of the story of Adina, a young, naive country girl who, in the time of German unification, settles down in Berlin. She is developing herself from an East German secret police (STASI) toy to an autonomous squatter.
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1992
(The long-awaited first biography of one of the 20th centu...)
The long-awaited first biography of one of the 20th century's greatest revolutionaries, this book includes rare, never-before published materials. Bracken provides readers with an abundance of material on this reclusive historical figure who refused all interviews.
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1997
(This book presents the alarming evidence that nation-stat...)
This book presents the alarming evidence that nation-states actively engage in terror, and also passively allow terror to be visited upon their citizens. It is not just liberation movements and radical groups that deploy terrorist tactics for offensive ends. States use terror defensively to directly intimidate their citizens and to indirectly attack themselves or harm their citizens under a false flag. Their motivation? To provide pretexts for otherwise unwanted wars, or to gain increased police powers. Statesmen have executed indirect terrorism in various ways, but most plots tend to involve the pretense of blind eyes, misdirection, and cover-ups that give the statesmen plausible deniability. The shrinking of the 'Lusitania', the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the October Surprise, the first World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing and other well-known incidents suggest that terrorism is often successfully used by states to take the offensive against enemies at home and abroad. Was 9-11 such an indirect defensive attack? Len Bracken traces the clues circumstantially connecting a multi-armed hydra of oil interests, the CIA, FBI diplomats and statesmen to the September 11 attacks and examines whether they were engineered or allowed as a pretext for the war in Afghanistan. The subsequent anthrax attack targeting Democratic senators is considered in light of the controversial USA Patriot Acts rights-encroaching measures and the act's easy passage under conditions of terror. A shadow government appears to have covered the land like black ice.
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2002
(Set in Washington during the 2000 election, Alex and othe...)
Set in Washington during the 2000 election, Alex and other activists wage the Campaign for Nobody the year Nobody wins more convincingly than ever. A government agent sullies Alex's name by half-enlisting him to implicate immigrant women, but Alex survives the escalating protests and parties to reenact the telephone conversations between Bush and Gore on election night at a lavish inaugural ball. Len Bracken is the author of the first biography on French filmmaker Guy Debord; he also penned one of the first books published in the United States suggesting 9/11 was an inside job. Snitch Jacket is his fourth novel.
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2007
Len Bracken was born on January 5, 1961 at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, United States to the family of Tony Bracken and Martha Ella Dobarzynski.
Bracken attended grade school in Rhode Island, Florida and Greece, and high school in California, Virginia and Switzerland. He is a graduate of George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs and has a professional editing certificate from the same university. A student of foreign languages, Bracken studied Russian in Moscow, French in Paris at the Sorbonne, and, less formally, Spanish during sojourns in Spain, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
In 1996-2000 Bracken worked as a bookseller at Black Planet Books. At the same time, he was conducting legal research, using antiquarian case law books and French-language source material at the Library of Congress.
In November 2000 Bracken started a career of a copy editor at the Daily Report for Executives, published by the Bureau of National Affairs acting as a reporter for a certain period of time. From 2010 up to 2018, he reported for the company, currently named Bloomberg Law on the topics connected with trade policy such as: export controls, sanctions, foreign investment in the United States, export financing, tariff preferences, World Trade Organization dispute settlement and negotiations on agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Bracken's writer's career started in 1990 when his first novel Freeplay was published. Since that time he's written three novels and three nonfiction books. Bracken has made an interpretation of Omar Khayyam’s poetry Persian Love.
(There's a growing trend in the modern imaginative novel t...)
1990(This book presents the alarming evidence that nation-stat...)
2002(Set in Washington during the 2000 election, Alex and othe...)
2007(The long-awaited first biography of one of the 20th centu...)
1997(After years of ideological training, the Stasi agent with...)
1992Len Bracken considers himself anarcho-communist. He is a founding member of far-left organization called Washington Psychogeography Association. He is also the author of one of the first widely distributed books published in the United States suggesting the 9/11 attacks were the work of government provocateurs.
Quotations: “I write to develop and clarify my understanding of what it means to be a human in this world of ours and to make it a better place. My influences? My friends and current events top the list comprised of writers as diverse as Picabia and Trifinov. For over a dozen years now, my habit has been to rise and write; research and revision wait until later in the day. I was inspired to write about Guy Debord because he set an excellent example of putting his revolutionary theory into practice: he puts Che to shame.”
Except for English, which is his mother tongue, Len Bracken speaks French, Russian and Spanish.