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David Pratt
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in Hartford, CT, The United States
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February 2012
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Bob the Book
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2010
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Wallaçonia
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Looking After Joey
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2014
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4 editions
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Todd Sweeney: The Fiend of Fleet High
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My Movie
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Two Plays: The Snow Queen, November Door
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Out of the Sublime, the Ridiculous
Writing a novel is a ridiculous undertaking. I spent two years writing Looking After Joey, the story of a gay porn character (not actor -- character) who steps out of the TV into the real life of a single accountant in New York City, and he gets stuck there. It's "The Purple Rose of Cairo" with lube and jockstraps. The accountant’s best friend decides to teach this boy, Joey, all he needs to know
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“Fuck you, diet,” said Stuart. “The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.”
― Looking After Joey
― Looking After Joey
“Joey broke the silence. “MS?” he asked.
“Microsoft,” said Calvin. “Or multiple sclerosis. Computer programs everyone has to use, or a debilitating disease. That’s life, in a nutshell.”
― Looking After Joey
“Microsoft,” said Calvin. “Or multiple sclerosis. Computer programs everyone has to use, or a debilitating disease. That’s life, in a nutshell.”
― Looking After Joey
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“Fuck you, diet,” said Stuart. “The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.”
― Looking After Joey
― Looking After Joey
“Bunce films them. So Joey who came out of one porn film would go into another. It could fuck up the whole space-time continuum. They could prosecute us.”
“For?”
“Meta-fiction in the first degree?”
― Looking After Joey
“For?”
“Meta-fiction in the first degree?”
― Looking After Joey
“So basically,” Calvin said, “this is My Fair Lady in a walk-up on West Twenty-Second Street with no music and no Julie Andrews.”
― Looking After Joey
― Looking After Joey
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David,Thanks you for your friendship on GR!
Regards,
Colton T. Freelove
