Dylan Brock

university of michigan, hunter college, mona shores high school, lincoln park elementary, pinecrest elementary

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Attended 1997 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, Creative Writing

writer/songwriter/professor/student/rock star

alcoholics anonymous, owen co-op, NELP

myself

whatever I'm writing, or my friends are writing, or my teachers are writing, or my students are writing. between all those pieces, i don't have time for pleasure reading and would rather spend my downtime listening to music.

i don't go to movies by myself so i rarely go to movies. i've seen most of the right ones and some of those that are so wrong that they're right, but i'm looking forward to having a lover if only so there's always someone to sit next to me when i bother to make it to the theater.

you probably haven't heard of it. and if you haven't heard of it i'm not going to bother to introduce it to you. but if you have heard of it we should talk. you know which bands I'm talking about, and if you don't you don't know me well enough to be my friend anyway.

if you have time for television you bore me.

I am a novelist. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's about the lie. The best lies are those where people have to ask you, did that happen? Was that real? And they don't know the difference. This is when I've done the work. This is fiction at its best. You can ridicule my subject matter all you want, say there are too many books in the world about writers who live in New York, and I wouldn't tell you where to stick it. I would ask you to spend five minutes studying my craft on the level of the sentence. You might get the impression that I think highly of my writing. Only because I've always been told to think as much by every one who I've ever studied under. Peter Carey. Kathryn Harrison. Colson Whitehead. Andrew Sean Greer. These are novelists. I also write songs for the best damn band on the planet. We will conquer the world one word and one note at a time. I front this band and we love each other and you will love us when you hear of us, and you will. Trust me, you will. Lyrics are the easy part. They come unbidden, like a teenage prom date. Music comes, too, later, like that girl who really makes you earn it. And I'm working on the screenplay to the film of the novel I just finished, which I hope to star in. Not that I'm an actor, but if Eminem and 50 Cent can play themselves, what's stopping me? I have enough ambition for you and me and my enitre extended family. So if you know me, or you want to know me, just wait, and read all about it when it gets published, buy the album when it drops, see the movie when it premieres. My story is large enough for all three and anyone who says they're humble is a bad liar, not a good liar like me.

Dostoevsky hired a stenographer who became his wife and he never would have written the greatest novels of his life without her. I don't need a muse. I've had enough of them for a lifetime. I need a stenographer.