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About People I've Met From The Internet
Product Description "Unputdownable. Young gay sex and super mundane details--two things I love, together." --Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man "Surprisingly touching, People I've Met From the Internet is a brilliantly written, taxonomic account of growing up queer in turn-of-the-millennium Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and beyond." --Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick "This is an impressive work, modern, relevant, powerfully startling in its effect." --John Rechy, author of City of Night Stephen van Dyck's PEOPLE I'VE MET FROM THE INTERNET is a queer reimagining of the coming-of-age narrative set at the dawn of the internet era. In 1997, AOL is first entering suburban homes just as thirteen-year-old Stephen is coming into his sexuality, constructing selves and cruising in the fantasyscape of the internet. Through strange, intimate, and sometimes perilous physical encounters with the hundreds of men he finds there, Stephen explores the pleasures and pains of growing up, contends with his mother's homophobia and early death, and ultimately searches for a way of being in the world. Spanning twelve years, the book takes the form of a very long annotated list, tracking Stephen's journey and the men he meets from adolescence in New Mexico to post-recession adulthood in Los Angeles, creating a multi-dimensional panorama of gay men's lives as he searches for glimpses of utopia in the available world. Review "Unputdownable. Young gay sex and super mundane details--two things I love, together." -- Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man "Stephen van Dyck's meticulous sexual records reveal the true recent histories of America, the Internet, the nearly-defunct nuclear family and the author himself. Surprisingly touching, People I've Met From the Internet is a brilliantly written, taxonomic account of growing up queer in turn-of-the-millennium Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and beyond." -- Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick "This is an impressive work, modern, relevant, powerfully startling in its effect." -- John Rechy, author of City of Night "People I've Met From the Internet puts van Dyck in the company of Rechy, Samuel Steward, and even Christopher Isherwood (especially his reconstructed diary, Lost Years) as experimental chroniclers of queer lives and times. The creativity of the form seems like something readers may wish they'd thought of themselves." -- Chris Freeman, The Gay & Lesbian Review "Bold, brave, sexy. . . This annotated bibliography of encounters bridging the virtual and real worlds of desire feels like a nineteenth-century erotic novel transposed onto the present, filled with salacious stories and characters. A truly remarkable adventure." -- D. A. Powell, author of Cocktails "A brilliant, deadpan account of sexualized youth. . . If it wasn't so effortlessly funny and wry, People I've Met From the Internet would horrify; as it stands, every sentence--every checked-off box of kissing? oral? anal?--brings on the warm flush a real writer gives you." -- Dodie Bellamy, author of When the Sick Rule the World "The ultimate memoir for the Information Age ... the data becomes a form of narration unlike any you may have encountered before. ... In People I've Met From The Internet, we share in van Dyck's struggles at the bleeding edge between life and art, and wonder what to make of the man behind the experiment. Perhaps the point of it all, his book seems to suggest, is simply to delight in the details." -- Julia Matthews, Zyzzyva Magazine "As the internet transformed the gay world from a limited number of spaces to a virtually unlimited homotopia, things were gained and things were lost, but van Dyck was one of its argonauts. . . There's a new kind of queer text here, one needed for a new queer age." -- Matias Viegener, author of 2500 Random Things About Me Too "A glowing diorama that is continuously unfolding with mountains, living, men, cities,
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