Celebrated short story writer and poet Stuart Dybek will give the keynote address at Saturday's Voices of the Midwest literary festival in Ann Arbor. (Photo by Bruce Powell ) Sometimes, a story you ...
Stuart Dybek’s stories occupy a territory somewhere between Vladimir Nabokov and Nelson Algren — beguiled by the play of language but also gritty and specific, fundamentally urban at their core. This ...
The way Stuart Dybek tells it, on the night that he decided to become a writer, the moon rose full and bright over Lake Michigan. It had not been an easy decision. His father, an immigrant from Poland ...
Stuart Dybek’s depictions of human frailty have won him a PEN/Malamud Award, an O. Henry Award, and a MacArthur Genius Grant, but few people have heard of him. Maybe it’s because it has been ten years ...
A young man and a young woman squeeze into the conductor’s compartment in the first car of an express elevated train and kiss passionately as they rock past crowded station platforms. This is a ...
KALAMAZOO, MI — Stuart Dybek has had an unprecedented amount of freedom the past eight years. Freedom from the strict structure of academia, freedom from financial worries and for a writer that ...
Do we really understand metaphor? How much do we really engage with our world metaphorically? We all have days when a cup is just a cup, a tree is just a tree, the sky is just the sky. And yet the ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ecstatic Cahoots and Paper Lantern — by Stuart Dybeck (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) When I was in college, I had a literary-minded classmate who introduced me ...
Joey "Deejo" DeCampo, one of the heroes of Stuart Dybek’s comic short story "Blight," about coming of age on Chicago’s South Side "in the years between Korea and Vietnam," wants to write the great ...
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