Critically acclaimed debut author Bryan VanDyke, spoke with me about the writer’s life in NYC, pushing the boundaries of literature and speculative fiction, and his latest novel about AI tech, IN OUR LIKENESS.

Bryan VanDyke is a former staff writer for The Millions, and he graduated from writing programs at Columbia University and Northwestern. As a digital strategist, he advised and partnered with technologists, startup founders and venture capitalists.

His “eerily timely debut novel,” IN OUR LIKENESS, draws on his experience and dramatizes many of the as-yet-unanswered questions about “the wonders and chaos” of artificial intelligence.

Described as a “Frankenstein-esque tale befitting the information age,” CNN journalist and author of Age of Revolutions Fareed Zakaria called the book “A total triumph.”

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In this file Bryan VanDyke and I discussed: 

• Feeling like a double agent while he was struggling to get published
• His love of genre science fiction and literary lions
• What it was like to edit a book about AI during a sea change in the tech
• How he edits his work on the go
• Grabbing a drink with William Faulkner at Grand Central Terminal
• And a lot more!

Show Notes: 

• bryanvandyke.com
• In Our Likeness: A Novel by Bryan VanDyke (Amazon)
• Kelton Reid on Twitter

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