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Ron Dillon

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Ron Dillon is a Chicago-born writer, musician, and creator whose life story reads less like a traditional resume and more like a classic American noir. At twenty-one, he headed to California with a guitar and an appetite for the music industry, kicking off a decades-long journey through the beautiful and the brutal.

He has worn nearly every hat imaginable: on-air radio DJ, worship leader, fine dining restaurant manager, and mortgage banker. He has also operated on the ragged edges of the night—surviving addiction, working the door as a strip club bouncer, and busking as a street-level typewriter poet. Influenced by the gritty realism of Charles Bukowski and the raw, observational hunger of Anthony Bourdain, Ron writes and creates from a plac ...more

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Novocaine For My Soul: A Strip Club Bouncer’s Battle with Addiction, Vice, and a God Who Wouldn’t Leave

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“The desert doesn’t care who you were before you cross the line into Nevada. It takes what it wants: moisture, breath, patience.”
― Ron Dillon, Novocaine For My Soul: A Strip Club Bouncer’s Battle with Addiction, Vice, and a God Who Wouldn’t Leave