Dry World

by Dylan James Brock, Morissa Schwartz (Editor)

In Dylan James Brock’s debut novel, love is its own psychosis. In this narrative told by a shattered mind, two romantic stories about one psychotic narrator are told simultaneously. The first plot, set in 2003, is at the end of a college career and the second plot, set in 2005, is at the beginning of a literary one. Each narrative spirals from a personal crisis into reckless violence. What results is a devastating yet poignant Bildungsroman about what can and can't be learned from love, art and madness.

230 pages, Paperback

Published June 21, 2016

About the author

Dylan Brock was born in Michigan. He was educated at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor starting at age sixteen, and completed a fiction writing MFA at Hunter College in New York City in 2006.

During graduate school, Dylan was concurrently occupied as a singer-songwriter with frequent stints at CBGBs until it closed in 2005. In 2006 he founded a record label that went on to have ten releases of original material by Michigan and New York City artists.

Starting in early 2011, Dylan was the fiction editor of Fogged Clarity, where he worked for just over a year. In 2016 Dry World was accepted for publication by GenZ Publsihing. This novel is written around a 24 song cycle of recorded music available at http://dylanjamesbrock.com/

Dylan lives just north of New York City with his wife and daughter.