Goodreads asked David Pratt:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

David Pratt This is a tough one, since most of my favorite books are set in real places. I like the wonder and sadness and antiquity of Roberto Bolano's "Antwerp," which I argue is fictional because it is clearly not intended to be the real Antwerp. Right now I am re-reading Least Heat-Moon's "Blue Highways," and I am going back and forth about the "fictional" world he creates: America in 1978, seen through the lens of its history and its "old ways," all lushly described but seen very selectively, with racial issues admitted only when the author wants to admit them.

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