168. Dylan James Brock Author of Roosevelt, Michigan - EMLab Artist Profiles

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About Roosevelt, Michigan - A Musical Novel

Buddy Henshaw is a folk musician and teenage orphan who lit out on a cross-country filmmaking project. After nearly killing his first love and collaborator Lily by falling asleep at the wheel, he flees her angry family for New York City, leaving her convinced he is dead. When he returns home to Michigan a decade later and founds an artists’ colony in a desolate downtown, he hopes to recapture Lily but ends up partying his way into a series of murders instead. Ultimately, casualties mount from battles between his artistic and romantic ambitions, and Buddy’s friends are left to deal with the wreckage that remains.

Echoing the language of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roosevelt, Michigan is a love letter to house parties and the extraordinary relationships that support folk and roots music. From a touching affair to a mentorship that goes violently wrong, Brock takes readers to the kind of unforgettable party where no one is sure what's in the punch, but everyone is enjoying the journey - until people start to die.

You can get your copy of Roosevelt, Michigan at: https://www.rooseveltmichigan.com/fiction

About the Author

Dylan James Brock is an author and musician and his second novel titled Roosevelt, Michigan - A Musical Novel, will be released on June 18th, 2021. His first novel, Dry World, was released in 2016 and is accompanied by a 25-song album.

At age sixteen, Dylan enrolled at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in 2006 he received a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Hunter College in New York City. This year, he founded Verisimi Lit, an independent publisher of newsletters and novels that can be found on Substack.

In this interview, we discuss:

• How Dylan first got interested in creative writing and who are his biggest artistic influences;
• Why he wanted to write Roosevelt, Michigan - A Musical Novel and what it is about;
• His unique writing process; and
• The role of the writer and artist in society.

Follow Dylan James Brock’s work and buy Roosevelt, Michigan:

• https://www.rooseveltmichigan.com/fiction
• https://verisimilit.substack.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/dylanjamesbrock/
• https://www.facebook.com/realdylanbrock
• https://twitter.com/dylanjamesbrock

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