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 aptive Audience is a collection of seven short stories about performers. It is now available at your favorite online, chain or independent bookstore.
Captive Audience has been named an Indie Next Notable Book by the American Booksellers Association and a New and Noteworthy Book by Poets & Writers magazine.
Captive Audience also received an Honorable Mention for "strongest work of fiction published in 2009" in The Believer Magazine 2010 Reader Survey.
In 2010, the collection will be published in French translation by Zanzibar Editions.
Read blurbs and reviews:
Captive Audience is wonderful. These stories— understated, honest and always touching—limn the many small perils that await a young man today on
his way to settling in the world. This is an immensely rewarding book.
Scott Turow
Author of Presumed Innocent and Limitations
Dave Reidy’s stories remind us that even when we’re composing our Song of Everyone Else, we’re creating a distinctive Song of Ourselves, and continually gathering others into us, in a way that Walt Whitman would recognize, and celebrate.
Jim Shepard
Former National Book Award nominee and author
of Like You’d Understand, Anyway
Dave Reidy’s matchless reports from the heart of twenty-first century America, a landscape of technological obsession and performance anxiety (in many forms), are elegant, precise, cool, and funny. Here is a young writer from whom we can expect much in the future.
David Leavitt
Author of The Indian Clerk
There’s something unassuming but very precise about the sentences in Reidy's "The Regular." The rhythms don’t break, the level of detail is constant, and there’s a certain tone in the delivery, almost an indifference, that I couldn’t resist. I guess I mean that this story is so sunk into itself that its reality, for the time it takes me to read it, is always far greater than mine. I don’t look around, I don’t wonder if it’s raining, I don’t fuss or fidget—I just read.
Charles D’Ambrosio
Author of The Dead Fish Museum on “The Regular,” the first story in Captive Audience
. . . a detailed and seemingly experience-based portrait of what it's like to strut one's stuff onstage—be it at a comedy club or on a basketball court—for all to see and judge. . . . an impressively solid debut . . . .
Chicago Sun-Times
In Captive Audience, Dave Reidy collects fictional stories of performers on the fringes of the entertainment world and deftly mixes in cameos from real celebrities (from R.E.M. to Abe Vigoda). This heartfelt collection highlights Reidy's empathy for his characters, and portends a bright future for the author.
David Gutowski
largehearted boy
. . . Dave Reidy captures music, paint, image, and desire with words and narrative. . . . an amazing story
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ForeWord Reviews
On "Look and Feel," a story in Captive Audience and a ForeWord Book Club featured excerpt
Sports stories can be a tough sell, but I bought it that Tim [Vilinski] was a pro athlete who built a career out
of filling holes and playing roles. He's not a star, but
he's always had luck finding a place to play until now, when he's gently pushed into retirement and fatherhood by disinterest around the league. This transition turns out to be difficult, and I found myself hoping, like Tim did, that he'd get one more shot at glory. This story
pulled me in.
Patrick Rapa
Review of "Postgame," a story in Captive Audience, for
I Read A Short Story Today
. . . a highly promising and playful debut. Captive Audience . . . certainly establishes Mr. Reidy as a talent to watch with interest.
David Sheffieck
The Front Table, Web Magazine of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores
. . . Reidy is a proficient and reliable performer in his chosen groove.
Publishers Weekly
This sublime collection of witty and bittersweet stories will stick with readers.
Zachary Tomaszewski
Literary Life Bookstore & More, Inc., for IndieBound
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