Ron Dakron's Blog, page 2
February 4, 2015
January 21, 2015
Hello Devilfish! readings
Tuesday, February 9th, 2015 at 7pm -- University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-634-3400
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-634-3400
November 25, 2014
Thanks for entering the Goodreads / Hello Devilfish! Giveaway
If you won a copy of Hello Devilfish on the Goodreads giveaway - congrats!
If not - why not pick up a copy here?
If not - why not pick up a copy here?
November 7, 2014
Upcoming readings - 2015 Seattle
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 at 7pm -- Ravenna Third Place Books,17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155, 206-366-3333
Tuesday, February 9th, 2015 at 7pm -- University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-634-3400
Tuesday, February 9th, 2015 at 7pm -- University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-634-3400
Upcoming readings - 2014 Spokane and 2015 Seattle
Friday, December 19, 2014 at 7pm -- Auntie's Bookstore,
402 West Main Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201, 509-838-0206
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 at 7pm -- Ravenna Third Place Books,
17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155, 206-366-3333
Tuesday, February 9th, 2015 at 7pm -- University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-634-3400
402 West Main Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201, 509-838-0206
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 at 7pm -- Ravenna Third Place Books,
17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155, 206-366-3333
Tuesday, February 9th, 2015 at 7pm -- University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-634-3400
November 4, 2014
Seattle Weekly waxes wryly over Hello Devilfish!
The
Seattle Weekly
chooses my reading of Hello Devilfish! at Elliott Bay Books (11/06 at 7 pm) as a "Pick List" event--and also sneaks a rad review in.
"Tokyo is burning, and Devilfish is laughing. He’s a kaiju, one of those fake-looking rubber monsters running amok—a giant blue manta ray, in this instance—and the very amusing narrator of Dakron’s Hello Devilfish! (Three Rooms Press, $15.95). Devilfish claims to be an enemy not just of Tokyo, where he gleefully topples power lines and elevated trains, munching on their passengers, but also of the novel itself. “Join us in plot-maiming fun!” he exclaims in Manglish, a comic lexicon made up of odd advertising slogans, poorly translated Japanese, LOL-speak, and I Can Has Cheezburger grammar. Destruction is this manta ray’s mantra. Yet the more his sting-tailed protagonist inveighs against Big Lit, local writer Dakron begins to sneak in some structure and literary mischief. Devilfish has an unwanted paramour in pursuit of him: another kaiju he calls Squidra, a giant pink kraken with tentacles and laser beams that shoot from her eyes. So there’s a bit of a love story in Hello Devilfish!, and a chase through the city’s smoldering rubble, an abrupt transformation (hello, Doug!), and flourishes of humor that recall Mark Leyner. Quoth the Devilfish, “I spit on realism and all its cunning henchmen!” Here’s a creature intending not to enter the literary canon but to destroy the library." Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., 624-6600, elliottbaybook.com. Free. 7 p.m. BRIAN MILLER
"Tokyo is burning, and Devilfish is laughing. He’s a kaiju, one of those fake-looking rubber monsters running amok—a giant blue manta ray, in this instance—and the very amusing narrator of Dakron’s Hello Devilfish! (Three Rooms Press, $15.95). Devilfish claims to be an enemy not just of Tokyo, where he gleefully topples power lines and elevated trains, munching on their passengers, but also of the novel itself. “Join us in plot-maiming fun!” he exclaims in Manglish, a comic lexicon made up of odd advertising slogans, poorly translated Japanese, LOL-speak, and I Can Has Cheezburger grammar. Destruction is this manta ray’s mantra. Yet the more his sting-tailed protagonist inveighs against Big Lit, local writer Dakron begins to sneak in some structure and literary mischief. Devilfish has an unwanted paramour in pursuit of him: another kaiju he calls Squidra, a giant pink kraken with tentacles and laser beams that shoot from her eyes. So there’s a bit of a love story in Hello Devilfish!, and a chase through the city’s smoldering rubble, an abrupt transformation (hello, Doug!), and flourishes of humor that recall Mark Leyner. Quoth the Devilfish, “I spit on realism and all its cunning henchmen!” Here’s a creature intending not to enter the literary canon but to destroy the library." Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., 624-6600, elliottbaybook.com. Free. 7 p.m. BRIAN MILLER
October 15, 2014
Ron Dakron reads Hello Devilfish! at Elliott Bay Books, 11/06 at 7 pm
I'll be reading from my new novel
Hello Devilfish!
at Elliott Bay Books on Thursday, 11/06 at 7 pm. Manglish! Shock pop! Stingray puppets!
October 12, 2014
Upcoming readings
10/20 at 7 p.m. - Le Poisson Rouge, New York NY, 158 Bleecker Street, 212-505-FISH, info@lprnyc.com
10/26 at 6 p.m. - jimgermanbar, 119 Main St., Waitsburg, WA 99361 509-337-6001
10/26 at 6 p.m. - jimgermanbar, 119 Main St., Waitsburg, WA 99361 509-337-6001
