Author

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction and two books of poetry. His stories and poems, noted for their intense lyricism, have been reprinted in the Best American series and often deal with the hardships of growing up in the rugged South Side of postwar Chicago. In September 2007, Dybek received the prestigious Rea Award for the Short Story, just a day after being awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. He is currently Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University in Chicago. [2008]

CONTRIBUTIONS

Interviews

Jul 23 2011

A Conversation with Stuart Dybek

We worry, as we should, about First Amendment censorship, but each of us ha s his own personal level of censorship going on. For all the lip service paid to the imagination, getting to it isn’t always easy. The imagination can be a very subversive force, and both society and the individual can be wary of that.

Poetry

Mar 01 1986

Benediction

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