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Dylan Forsyth

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in Bellingham, WA, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Memoir, Poetry

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Dylan Forsyth grew up in the Pacific Northwest where the bohemian writer dream first came to him reading the Beats (Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, Ginsberg) in his late teens (later he killed all of his juvenile idols (though never Ferlighetti)). Soon he found his way into French influences such as the Surrealists, Dada, the Decadents, the Symbolists, the Realists, and the Bouzingo, and on from there. One must always be interested in something, or else what's the point. He sees himself as an amateur, off-the-cuff subcultural art historian (from Romanticism to Posthumanism).

His first novel, The Infinitists, is a mashup of historical fiction and sci-fi—Cloud Atlas meets 1920s Paris meets Occupy Wall Street. His second, Hypelandia, is a fictional ora ...more

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	Afterlives of the Writers by Dylan Forsyth (Goodreads Author) (Editor), George Salis (Goodreads Author), Michael McCormick 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinitists 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginary Artworks: by Dylan Forsyth (Goodreads Author), Édouard Levé 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Millennial's Season in Hell: it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cubist Selfie: by Dylan Forsyth (Goodreads Author), Édouard Levé (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hypelandia: The Subcultural Oral History of 80s Portland, 90s Berlin, & 2010s Detroit it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hypelandia: The Subcultural Oral History of 80s Portland, 90s Berlin, & 2010s Detroit by Dylan Forsyth

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I conceived this fictional oral history as an homage and parody of other music and subculture focused oral histories such as Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Johnny Rottten's first autobiography, Wonderland Berlin, and Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth Read more of this blog post »

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“The current is ideas: edible ideas; lavish, insane, taken years to ferment, then corked and cheered, inciting a whole battalion of champagne to detonate, idea after idea, until it is as if we are standing on an entirely new earth.”
― Ian Drew Forsyth, The Great Chaining of Being

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“Most of the real gods are dead; because we've robbed them of freewill. But it doesn't mean we still don't worship ideas.”
― Ian Drew Forsyth, The Great Chaining of Being

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message 2: by Dylan

Mar 06, 2018 06:35PM

Thank you Majenta, likewise!
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message 1: by Majenta

Mar 04, 2018 01:20PM

Hello, Ian! Thank you for contacting me. I hope you're well and having a great weekend. Congratulations on your book! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta

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