Our protagonist and unlikely hero is Gork - a dragon with pretty strong feelings toward Tolkein and the author of Beowulf for the depiction of dragons - he’s sort of a wimp, his horns aren’t that big (pretty small, really), he’s not that fierce (but he wants to be), and he tends to faint at inopportune times and frequently. There were also too many parts, but we’ll get to that in a bit. There were parts of this that were delightful, parts of it that were problematic, parts that were just okay.

Don’t let the length of the “bleh” bits here distract you - Hudson just provoked some thoughts. I chuckled, I grinned, I was happy for Gork’s successes (happier for his best-friend Fribby’s successes - but they usually coincided) - as rare as they were.

The problem is, it takes more words to describe the stuff I wasn’t crazy about than it does to describe the stuff I liked. In 2007, he was selected as one of the “Twenty Best Young American Novelists” by Granta Magazine.Note: As I re-read this before it goes up, I thought I should stress something: this is a fun book and I think people will enjoy it. He is an editor-at-large for McSweeney’s. Hudson was a contributing writer for HBO’s book, “Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death” (2004). Hudson’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, McSweeney’s, BlackBook, Granta, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine. Before Yonsei University, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University from 2004-2007. Previously Hudson was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College. It is considered to be 'the first significant piece of Gulf-war fiction' according to Esquire. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times. President was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. President (Knopf, 2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His novel Gork, the Teenage Dragon was released from Knopf on July 11, 2017. Gabe Hudson (born 1971) is an American writer. Brown University, The University of Texas at Austin

Gork, the Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson