Gangbare naam: David Pratt
Officiële naam: David Pratt
Geboortedatum: 1957-12-11
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Hartford, Connecticut, U.S
Woonplaatsen: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Opleiding: BA, Hamilton College; MFA, New School University
Beroepen: writer, editor
Korte biografie: David Pratt won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award for his debut novel, Bob the Book. His story collection, My Movie includes new work and short fiction originally published in Christopher Street, The James White Review, Velvet Mafia, Lodestar Quarterly and the several anthologies. Subsequent fiction includes Looking After Joey (2014), Wallaçonia (2017) and Todd Sweeney: The Fiend of Fleet High (2019). David has directed and performed his work for the theater in New York at the Cornelia Street Cafe, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, the Flea (in a workshop directed by Karen Finley) and in the NY International Fringe Festival. Two of his plays are collected in, not surprisingly, Two Plays (2020). David was the first director of plays by the award-winning Canadian playwright John Mighton. His most recent literary work was The Book of Humiliation (2020-2021), a series of 16 zines designed and illustrated by Nicholas Williams.

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Bob the Book door David Pratt

Bob is a gay book looking for the love of his life. It’s a fun concept, a quick read, and a good allegory for life, love, and relationships. The story shows we don’t always get what we want, or we find it in a way that’s unexpected. Equally, it says that what we want isn’t necessarily the best thing for us or even what we need. And I’ll never be able to look at a book with a broken spine the same way again.

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Todd Sweeney: The Fiend of Fleet High

Dark and deliciously twisted.

Todd Sweeney just wants to take care of those around him, especially his friend Toby. When he learns of what he went through in a re-education center, he takes matters into his own hands to protect him. Along with his love interest, Nelly, they hatch a plan to save their friends, one dark plan at a time.

I loved this modern remake of a classic. This book with filled with dark humor, action, and romance. This is not your typical YA horror.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
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Kayla.Krantz | Feb 14, 2020 |

My Movie door David Pratt

Pratt’s My Movie is not a “light” collection; I fondly remember Bob, the Book, apparently an easy/comedy like romance about a book falling in love for another book, but even that one had some committed undertone that the most attentive reader could catch. This is what I found again in My Movie, but in a more important dose. Truth be told, My Movie seems to me more “fantasy” than Bob, the Book, but not since it’s a traditional fantasy novel, but since we are mostly inside the minds of the narrative voices, and those voices are happy, scared, young, old, and all of them give you their perception of the world.

The My Movie of the title without doubt refers to the recurrent element of the “movie” in the short stories, but it’s also a way to explain that what we are “seeing” is the movie of the main characters, their story like in a private screening. Most of the time there is no recollection of the setting or the time, but simple since, when “you” are thinking, you don’t describe the outside world, you “are” in that world, no need to describe it to yourself. So that is the feeling, looking at things through the eyes of who is living them.

Another recurrent point is the past time; some of the story are between the ’70 and ’90, pre-and-during the apex of the AIDS plague, maybe since people before were more innocent, and people after couldn’t forget. AIDS changed the lives of many, and broke the lives of many others, and who survived was never again the same.

So no, you will probably not have the same smile I had while reading Bob, the Book, but you will nevertheless experience something of important, David Pratt’s own movie life.

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elisa.rolle | 1 andere bespreking | Apr 15, 2013 |

My Movie door David Pratt

Short stories exploring nuanced theme--the sense of how these other guys are the way you're supposed to be, but know you're not, and know that others know you're not; the edges of intimate relationships where our unspeakable secrets are already understood. In many ways, each of these stories circles around something that can't be or merely isn't said, and the effect often is satisfyingly poetic.

But other times it fails, and the repetition of these themes makes you think, "Haven't we been over this before?" The post-modern "Calvin Gets Sucked In" was cute, but fell flat, and the fable of the trees with intertwined roots just seemed clumsy in comparison to "The Island," "Series" and "The Addict."

Good work, but much of it of its time, not offering much that's fresh and different.… (meer)

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