"$100-a-Week Hotel" by Dan Denton (Punk Hostage Press)You will feel like Dan Denton is writing about the people you know, the sad souls most of us grew up with-particularly, if you've ever been stuck in the loveless hellhole of Ohio where they manufacture the corrections-guards and buckeyed sports fans for cannon fodder and fast food management, and one's only hope of escape is the factory where they tell you that work will set you free.
Denton is such a vivid illustrator with a real gift for word slinging, you'll swear these are surely some of the people from your own shitty bar on the corner. He is probably the best novelist of our generation. If you love Charles Bukowski, and let's face it, if you are reading my words here at this particular platform, chances are pretty high you do, or Hunter S. Thompson, or even James Baldwin, you're gonna love Dan Denton, too. His writing is totally fucking rock 'n' roll, pained and tortured, but also humane and courageous. He makes me laugh three or four times in the course of this book, and I'm a pretty depressed and sullen person. This book is full of heart and I think you should probably order a copy as soon as you possibly can.
