Stephen van Dyck is a

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

and

Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in ...

New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...

based writer and artist."Delight in the Details."
''

Zyzzyva ''Zyzzyva'' is a triannual magazine of writers and artists. It places an emphasis on showcasing emerging voices and never before published writers in addition to the already established. Based in San Francisco, it began publishing in 1985. ''ZYZZY ...

''."KChung Radio is a Sound Sensation."
KCET. He is the author of ''People I've Met From the Internet,'' and organizer of the Los Angeles Road Concerts.

Books

''People I've Met From the Internet'' is an experimental memoir in the form of a very long annotated list of the people van Dyck met online from 1997 to 2009. Through the annotations, van Dyck tells a queer reimagining of the

coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can ...

story that contends with loss and a never-quite-arriving to adulthood. In a review for ''Zyzzyva,'' Julia Matthews called the book "the ultimate memoir for the Information Age: a series of extraordinarily personal vignettes derived from a data spreadsheet." Of ''People I've Met From the Internet'', the novelist John Rechy wrote: "This is an impressive work, modern, relevant, powerfully startling in its effect." Writer Chris Kraus called it "a brilliantly written, taxonomic account of growing up queer at the turn of the millennium." The filmmaker

Miranda July Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger; February 15, 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, singer, actress and author. Her body of work includes film, fiction, monologue, digital presentations and live performance art. She w ...

tweeted that the book was "unputdownable."

Curatorial projects

In 2008 van Dyck founded Los Angeles Road Concerts, a semi-annual series of all-day arts events in which artists of all kinds perform and install works in unused public spaces. In 2018 van Dyck collaborated with the

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA), commonly branded as Metro, LA Metro, and L.A. Metro, is the state agency that plans, operates, and coordinates funding for most of the transportation system in Los Angele ...

on ''Changes'', a showing on 20 artists and performers in and around LA's Union Station."From Rave Music to Shoe Shining, LA’s Union Station Sets the Stage for 20 Performances."
Hyperallergic.

Other works

From 2012 to 2016, Van Dyck hosted a radio show called ''Customer Care'' on

KCHUNG Radio KCHUNG is a freeform radio station in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles as KChung Radio 1630 AM. KCHUNG broadcasts over 200 shows a month on 1630 AM and online through the station's website. The station operates according to what are gene ...

in Los Angeles. On his show, van Dyck contacted debt collectors, customer service agents, and telemarketers, and through an episodic narrative about his debts and CalArts defaulted loans, he and they talked about their personal lives.

Bibliography

*
People I've Met From the Internet.
' Los Angeles, CA. Ricochet Editions. 2019

References

External links

"Stephen van Dyck"
''Official website''.
"4 books I read recently and loved."
Dennis Cooper's Blog.
"Grindr World."
The Gay & Lesbian Review.
‘People I’ve Met From the Internet’ by Stephen van Dyck: Delight in the Details
Zyzzyva Magazine.
Literary LA: Stephen Van Dyck Meets People on the Internet
Los Angeles Review of Books. {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Dyck, Stephen 1983 births Living people Performance art in Los Angeles American gay writers 21st-century American memoirists LGBT people from New Mexico LGBT people from California Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico Artists from Albuquerque, New Mexico Writers from Los Angeles Writers from New Mexico 21st-century American male writers Occidental College alumni California Institute of the Arts alumni American people of Dutch descent American people of German-Russian descent