The Trash Detail

THE BOOK: The Trash Detail.

PUBLISHED IN: 2018

THE AUTHOR: Bruce Pratt

THE EDITOR: Nayt Rundquist

THE PUBLISHER: New Rivers Press

SUMMARY: A collection of short fiction.

THE BACK STORY: The majority of these stories first appeared in literary journals and reviews and won awards.

WHY THIS TITLE? It is the title of one of the stories in the collection.

WHY SOMEONE WOULD WANT TO READ IT: Those who enjoy character-driven short fiction will enjoy this collection.  The authors I admire or who were my mentors include Jack Driscoll, William Trevor, Wallace Stegner, Joan Connor, Colin Fleming and Elizabeth Strout.

REVIEW COMMENTS:

“The Trash Detail reminds me why I love the short story form, its compression of language and narrative, and what Frank O’Connor refers to as its “intense awareness of human loneliness.” Bruce Pratt is a storyteller of the first order, and his characters so compassionately rendered, that I found myself compelled–as soon as I’d finished the collection–to begin reading it again. These are fearless, big-hearted, emotionally charged stories, as lovely as they are haunting, and all the more so in the presence of each other.” —Jack Driscoll, author of the award winning collections, The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot,The World of a Few Minutes Ago, and Wanting Only to be Heard.

AUTHOR PROFILE: Bruce Pratt’s nove The Serpents of Blissfull was published by Mountain State Press in 2011. He was nominated in 2008 for a Pushcart Award in fiction, and his poetry collection Borealis is available from Antrim House Books. In 2018 his story collection The Trash Detail was published by New Rivers Press, and a poetry chapbook Forms and Shades was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing. His fiction, poetry, essays, and plays have appeared in more than forty literary magazines and journals in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Wales, and have won several awards. Since 2014 Pratt has been the editor ofAmerican Fictionand is the past director of The Northern Writes New Play Festival. Pratt lives with his wife, Janet, in Swanville Maine.

AUTHOR COMMENTS: I believe that the best short fiction is character driven is ultimately redemptive no matter what obstacles must be faced by those characters. I like precise and elegant language and believe that setting can itself be a character. But most of all the prose must be engaging and give the reader a reason and desire to read to the end.

LOCAL OUTLETS: All New Rivers Press titles are available from the major online retailers and at local bookstores through Small Pres Distribution and Ingram.

PRICE: $18.

CONTACT THE AUTHOR: http://www,beprratt.com.