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D. Travers Scott is a social commentator, author, and lecturer who currently lives and works in Los Angekles, Ca. Born in Waco, Texas, he was raised in wildly varying locations and conditions, from poolside caviar to mobile homes without running water. His eclectic childhood fueled his diverse adult explorations of sexuality, faith, storytelling, family, masculinity, identity and fantastical narrative. He is the author of the acclaimed novel Execution, Texas: 1987 (1997 St. Martin's Press); One of These Things is Not Like The Other (2005 Suspect Thoughts Press) and has appeared appear in Harper's, and This American Life. He has edited Best Gay Erotica 2000 (With Richard Labonte), and Strategic Sex: Why They Won't Keep It in the Bedroom (With Curtis Brown). He has also contributed short stories and essays to various publications. Currently he is a fourth year student in the Communication Ph.D program at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication.

Execution, Texas: 1987 (St. Martins Press 1997)
Execution, Texas: 1987 was D. Travers Scott's first novel. Some of the initial scenes that would grow into the book were actually written in 1987, but the was mostly written in 1992-96. Execution, Texas: 1987 is a sharply original semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a 17-year-old in the small town of Execution, Texas, whose struggles with his identity are complicated and complemented by those around him.

Reviews for Exection, Texas: 1987 "D. Travers Scott's novel is, in turn, both funny and disturbing...captures the mystery and confusion of an American youth where the search for love is equaled only by the search for drugs. I applaud him." -- David Sedaris

"Elegantly constructed and very smart, Execution, Texas: 1987 holds more crackly energy than a box of firecrackers. And Seeger, its nervy, sex-obsessed protagonist, is unforgettable." -- Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin, In Awe

"At turns funny, creepy, and frustrated, this book seethes with complex erotic tensions and highlights the strangeness of its middle-America setting." -- Village Voice

"Killer humor...Scott neatly but affectionately skewers the 1960s generation that raised those freaked-out kids...knife-edge balance between satire and soap opera, its humor and angst remain winning." -- The Seattle Times

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other (Suspect Thoughts Press)
D. Travers Scott's second novel was published by Suspect Thoughts Press in 2005. It was received the "LAMBDA Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery", "Best Thriller of 2005" from InsightOut Book Club and was nominated for "Best Novel 2006" by Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Synopsis: You're your own man," Jake Barnes tells himself upon arrival at his father's isolated cabin in the woods of Oregon. "You are yourself." But in the strange world of One of These Things Is Not Like the Other, manhood and self are not to be so easily understood. Or trusted.

Quadruplet brothers. Raised in rural seclusion by their identical, namesake father. Now in their twenties, the Jake Barnes brothers are shocked by their father's sudden suicide during one boy's visit. More surprises come in the video he leaves behind, announcing that one of them is an unrelated outsider, and daring his sons to uncover the truth of their birth. From across the U.S. the brothers converge to find a woman who may be their mother, but twisted lust, murderous secrets, and shifting identities threaten their lives along the way.

Set in a dream-soaked reality one step removed from our own, One of These Things Is Not Like the Other is a darkly comic tale of masculine identity and relationships. What is the true nature of a man, father, brother, son, lover? Some men die searching for such truth. Some men kill to keep it hidden. Some come to wish they had never learned it. But as the four identical brothers seek out answers to who they are and where they come from, they find the truth to be as elusive as fog on the Oregon coast or as treacherous as sand in a Texas dust storm.

Reviews for "One of These Things is not Like the Other": "This gorgeous existential mystery is a page-turner, a grand novel of possession from beyond the grave..." -- Robert Glück, author of Denny Smith

Brutal, twisted... It’s rare to come across a writer this fearless and original. -- C. L. Frey, The Weekly News, Miami

Essays
Online: "Aegis" (Simon Sheppard's Rough Stuff) Identity Envy Gas Works Park Falcons Into Gothic Air

Other Publications:

"Bubble 2.0: Organized Online Critique of Web 2.0," Rocky Mountain Communication Review, in press.

"Pundits in Muckrakers' Clothing: Political Blogs and the 2004 Presidential Election" [hhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415979404/sr=1-1/qid=1154813428/ref=sr_1_1/002-9016232-9338406?ie=UTF8&s=books Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media ]

"Protest Email as Alternative Media in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign" Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Westminster University, London

"Marriage and the Shape of Things" appeared in I Do / I Don't: Queers on Marriage, Wharton & Philips, Eds., September 2004, Suspect Thoughts Press.