"Mark Doyon is a consummately skilled writer... and Bonneville Stories clearly documents him as an author to watch." --Midwest Book Review Review at CultureCartel.com Review in Absinthe Literary Review Mark Doyon is an empathetic social satirist with a playful grasp. His writing whistles past the graveyard like so many giggling schoolkids. It's as darkly funny as optimism gets. His recent collection, Bonneville Stories, amuses as well as provokes. "Mark's work is very American," says J. Thomas Hetrick of Pocol Press. "It's about oversized dreams and the existential quandaries they bring." His writing refracts Frederick Exley and Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl and Donald Barthelme. Sample story: "Sooner or Later" As editor of the 1990s fiction quarterly Friction, Doyon pondered past and present, truth and fact, ego and selflessness. These became the volatile underpinnings of Bonneville Stories. * Web and magazine editors: download a Doyon publicity kit (308K). Thrillseekers: read what the press had to say. * Doyon also writes songs. With the bands Wampeters and Arms of Kismet, he has produced nine CDs. The Daily Vault said of his 2004 disc, "Eponymous brims with an off-kilter wisdom and warped melodies, a treasure-trove of idiosyncratic rock and roll that will make you smile when it isn't busy making you think. More than just a collection of songs, this disc marks the coming of age of an original voice, and is not to be missed." Groovevolt.com called the record "a classic, one of the first great discs of 2004." Check out the disco-bibliography. NEW! Slingshot to Obscurity MD | Bonneville Stories | Jagged Whimsy and Other Stories | Slingshot to Obscurity | Disco-bibliography | Blurbfest | Bloggy Yada | Spoken Word | Linktastic | Arms of Kismet | Wampeters | Contact | Home ©2009 Wampus Multimedia. All rights reserved.