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  | | Paper Lantern(Reprint) Love Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53538-4, ISBN: 0-374-53538-8 "A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love"Ready!""""Aim!""On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it's cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a c ..." |
 | | Ecstatic Cahoots(1st Edition) Fifty Short Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28050-5, ISBN: 0-374-28050-9 "In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives each tale his signature mix of characters--some almost ghostly, others vividly real--who live in worlds tinged with surreal potential. There are crazed nuns hijacking streetcars, eerie adventures across frozen ponds, and a boy who is visi ..." |
 | | The Coast of Chicago(1st Edition) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42425-1, ISBN: 0-312-42425-6 "The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with ..." |
 | | I Sailed with Magellan(Reprint) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42411-4, ISBN: 0-312-42411-6 "Major new fiction from an acclaimed masterFrom the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed With Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality amidst the stark urban landscapes of Chicago's south side; there, the daily experiences of the neighborhood are transformed in the lush imaginative adventur ..." |
 | | Childhood and Other Neighborhoods(1st Edition) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17658-1, ISBN: 0-226-17658-4 "In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places—in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters become exotic landscapes of fear-filled possibility, of dreams not yet turned to nightmares. Chronicling what happens when Old World faith meets ..." |
 | | Paper Lantern(1st Edition) Love Stories by Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-14644-3, ISBN: 0-374-14644-6 "A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic loveReady!Aim!On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it’s cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a corner o ..." |
 | | Streets in Their Own Ink(1st Edition) Poems by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2006 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52991-8, ISBN: 0-374-52991-4 "In a city like that one might sailthrough life led by a runaway hat.The young scattered in whatever directionstheir wild hair pointed and, gustinginto one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City"In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enact ..." |
 | | Food and Booze(1st Edition) A Tin House Literary Feast by Lydia Davis, Francine Prose, Grace Paley, Stuart Dybek, Steve Almond, Anthony Swofford, Elissa Schappell, Michelle Wildgen, Nicole J. Georges Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 2006 by Tin House Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9773127-7-1, ISBN: 0-9773127-7-1 "Editors have assembled a delicious collection of food and drink writing that originally appeared in Tin House magazine. Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast celebrates seven years of the dazzling writing and delicious recipes of Tin House magazine’s Readable Feast and Blithe Spirits departments. Literature and gastronomy converge in an idiosyncratic survey of everything from lotus fruit, elk, and absinthe to bread, eggs, and brandy ..." |
 | | Streets in Their Own Ink Poems by Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2004 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27095-7, ISBN: 0-374-27095-3 "In a city like that one might sailthrough life led by a runaway hat.The young scattered in whatever directionstheir wild hair pointed and, gustinginto one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City"In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enact ..." |
 | | I Sailed with Magellan(1st Edition) by Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17407-1, ISBN: 0-374-17407-5 "Major new fiction from an acclaimed masterFrom the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed With Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality amidst the stark urban landscapes of Chicago's south side; there, the daily experiences of the neighborhood are transformed in the lush imaginative adventur ..." |
 | | Brass Knuckles(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2004 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-415-5, ISBN: 0-88748-415-8 "The poems in this powerful first book have grown from the American urban experience of the last half of this century, a time of decay and diminishing possibilities; they vary from realistic vignettes of working-class Chicago neighborhoods to prose poems elegant and spare in their surrealism. At the middle of this book and at the thematic center of the collection is Dybek’s remarkable reworking of the myth of Persephone, in which the Am ..." |
 | | The Coast of Chicago Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 173 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42282-0, ISBN: 0-312-42282-2 "The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek’s classic story collection. A child’s collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder’s inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with ..." |
 | | Brass Knuckles(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1979 by Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5307-4, ISBN: 0-8229-5307-2 "The poems in this powerful first book have grown from the American urban experience of the last half of this century, a time of decay and diminishing possibilities; they vary from realistic vignettes of working-class Chicago neighborhoods to prose poems elegant and spare in their surrealism. At the middle of this book and at the thematic center of the collection is Dybek’s remarkable reworking of the myth of Persephone, in which the Am ..." |
 | | The Best Small Fictions 2016 by Stuart Dybek, Tara L. Masih Paperback, 127 Pages, Published 2017 by Braddock Avenue Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9989667-2-4, ISBN: 0-9989667-2-X |
 | | Pitt Poetry Ser. Brass Knuckles by Stuart Dybek ISBN-13: 978-0-608-22231-8, ISBN: 0-608-22231-3 |
 | | Our Working Lives(1st Edition) Short Stories of People and Work by Jim Ray Daniels, Stuart Dybek, Nancy Zafris, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Larry Smith, Andy Nelson Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2000 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-0-933087-63-7, ISBN: 0-933087-63-2 "Fiction. In this anthology, through a variety of voices and venues, work and the workplace provide setting, metaphor, and meaning -- Bonnie Jo Campbell. In most ways this...is a perfect model of the American short story of work: intimate with the working experience, its work and culture, giving respect and space for the worker to speak his/her grief and joy within a collective sensibility, creating a form that exposes the effects of opp ..." |
 | | Coast of Chicago(Reprint) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 173 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73334-8, ISBN: 0-679-73334-5 "Set in a solid urban landscape that may turn dreamlike in the blink of an eye, these stories balance homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with heroic leaps of imagination. "Moving and real and often brilliantly ambitious."--The Los Angeles Times. Reading tour." |
 | | Coast of Chi Bk. 2 by Stuart Dybek Published 1986 ISBN-13: 978-0-670-81356-8, ISBN: 0-670-81356-7 |
 | | Barrio(1st Edition) Photographs from Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village (Chicago Visions and Revisions) by Paul D'amato, Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13505-2, ISBN: 0-226-13505-5 "In 1988, photographer Paul D'Amato was driving around Chicago with his camera when he decided to follow Halsted Street into Pilsen, the city's largest Mexican neighborhood. Intrigued by the barrio and neighboring Little Village, he began to take photographs and would continue to do so off and on for the next fourteen years. D'Amato started with the public life of the neighborhood: women and children in the streets, open fire hydrants, a ..." |
 | | Brass Knuckles (Signed First Edition) by Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 1979 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-3399-1, ISBN: 0-8229-3399-3 |
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