Dylan Gyles is a writer and barista. He writes short fiction and creative non-fiction. He is originally from Winnipeg and now lives in Vancouver.
Dylan Gyles
Reviews
Heavy Reading
Dylan Gyles embarks on a quest to read all of literature's most difficult tomes, starting with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
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Reviews
Not Quite Home
Dylan Gyles reviews They Never Told Me and Other Stories by Austin Clarke.
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Reviews
Philosophy and Chloroform
Dylan Gyles reviews Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers, the story of a disillusioned young man grappling with life, the universe and metaphysical truths.
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Dispatches
Floating
“Don’t try to make anything happen,” the calm voice said. Dylan Gyles visits a sensory deprivation float tank.
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Lucy, You Got Some Smokin' to Do
I Love Lucy was unique when it first premiered because it was sponsored entirely by Philip Morris cigarettes, which gave them tremendous sway over creative content.
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The Spy Who Loved Smoking
In the original novels by Ian Fleming, James Bond is a heavy smoker, putting away between sixty and seventy cigarettes a day.
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Fear, Loathing and Tobacco
Hunter S. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, was rarely seen without a cigarette.
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Beatniks on Tobacco
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest looks at the instant gratification that cigarettes provided the greatest writers of the Beat Generation.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
The classic Jim Jarmusch film, in review on the official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.
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Breathlessness
Breathless was Jean-Luc Godard's first feature and a landmark film in the New Wave movement, containing all the hallmarks of American noir: criminals, voice-overs, a femme-fatale and lots of smoking.
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Disney's Ashes
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Contest looks at the long history (and current absence) of smoking in Disney films.
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Quit Lit
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest looks at the Quit Lit genre and David Sedaris' personal technique for quitting.
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Springfield's Cigarettes
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest looks at the long, hilarious history of smoking in The Simpsons.
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The Man with No Name
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest talks about Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood and those signature Toscano cigars.
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Smoking Songs
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest looks at the inexorable link between smoking and the image of the musician.
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The Future of Smoking
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest discusses the future of smoking as evidenced by science fiction.
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Geistbusters
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Contest looks at the chain-smoking, ghost-hunting scientists of the 1984 hit film Ghostbusters.
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Here Endeth the Packet
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest reviews Peter Ashley's The Cigarette Papers, a eulogy for the nearly-extinct art of cigarette packet design.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Cigarettes
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Contest looks at Raymond Carver and the prevalence of cigarettes in his work.
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Welcome to Flavour Country
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Writing Contest marks the departure of the ever-present ever-changing cigarette slogan.
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Why Crad Kilodney Loves Tobacco
Crad Kilodney could always be found on Yonge Street, rain or shine, with his stapled and photocopied books in hand and a pipe in his mouth.
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The Best of the Best
For as long as tobacco has been smoked, there have been individuals that exemplify the craft.
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The Calabash
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Contest investigatges Sherlock Holmes and his iconic Calabash pipe.
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Up to Snuff
The official blog of the Geist Tobacco Lit Contest looks at the extinct habit of snuff tobacco.
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Tobacco: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Tobacco lit cannot be discussed without considering film noir: Crime Fiction in the 1940s romanticized tobacco in an irreversible way.
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Virtues and Miami Vices
Miami Vice premiered in 1984 and was the last American television show to glorify smoking.
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