Stuart Dybek

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Chicago, IL, The United States

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Stuart Dybek has published three short story collections: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed With Magellan; and two volumes of poetry: Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. He has been anthologized frequently and regularly appears in magazines such as the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine and the Paris Review.

He has received numerous awards, including: a 1998 Lannan Award; the 1995 PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize "for distinctive achievement in the short story"; an Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994; a Guggenheim Fellowship; two fellowships from the NEA; a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; and a Whiting Writers Award....more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 2,039 ratings · 272 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Coast of Chicago: Stories 4.13 avg rating — 764 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	I Sailed with Magellan 4.13 avg rating — 392 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories 4.11 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems 3.82 avg rating — 65 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Brass Knuckles 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Paper Lantern 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings	My rating:
	Ploughshares Spring, 1998: Stories & Poems Edited by Stuart Dabek & Jane Hirshfield, Vol. 24 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Verb: An Audioquarterly by Stuart Dybek (Manufacturer), George Singleton, Daren Wang (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Les quais de Chicago 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	The Coast of Chicago: Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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“The public library is where place and possibility meet.”
― Stuart Dybek

tags: books , library , reading

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“Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I’d ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.”
― Stuart Dybek, The Coast of Chicago: Stories

tags: missing-someone , nostalgia , sadness-lonelyness

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“Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.”
― Stuart Dybek, The Coast of Chicago: Stories

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Bookish: Short Stories	2	40	Apr 18, 2010 12:30pm
Reading with Style: 20.4 - A Poet's Non-Poetry	14	57	Mar 29, 2011 08:48am
Reading with Style: General Questions & Answers	212	93	May 01, 2011 10:11am
Bookish: * The Possibilities	3	59	Nov 10, 2011 01:20am

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