Childhood and Other Neighborhoods(1st Edition) Stories by StuartDybek 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 ..."
I Sailed with Magellan(1st Edition) by StuartDybek 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 ..."
The Coast of Chicago Stories by StuartDybek 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"A luminous collection of passionate original essays that speak of the powerful, flawed, wildly diverse experience of school in America. Includes pieces by Sherman Alexie, Stuart Dybek, Carolyn Ferrell, Bich Minh Nguyen, David Sedaris, Caroline Kettlewell, and Francesca Delbanco."
"Contributors to this issue include: Kim Addonizio, Sandra Alcosser, Nin Andrews, David Baker, Bruce Beasley, Dan Bellm, Nathaniel Bellows, Molly Bendall, Karen Benke, Bruce Bond, David Bottoms, Joel Brouwer, Pam Crow, Michael Cuddihy, Chard deNiord, Sharon Dolin, Stephen Dunn, Laura Fargas, Patricia Fargnoli, Herman Fong, Kenny Fries, Ted Genoways, Debora Greger, Sam Hamill, Jeffrey Harrison, A. Hemon, Colette Inez, Ruth Ellen Kocher, C ..."
"Tales of the City John Miller, Genevieve Morgan. And with a black man? Beth
Ann Baker of the Baker Cotton Gin. Miss Cotton Queen Baker of Georgia .... Then
I heard Cal get round to me. He saved me for the last. Mainly cause I'm female
and he ... Her blue ones got as big as my black ones. She recognized me, in fact
in a second we tipped eyelids at each other. Not winking. Just squinting, to see
better. There was something that I cou ..."
"Mike puts his hands on the car's window ledge, to steady himself. "It wasn't your
fault," Mike tells Ellen. His voice is still shaky with fear. "I was standing out in the
very middle of this road." "It's more my fault than anybody's," says Jim Reese."
"In 1976, Wayne State University Press published The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, an anthology that offered a sampling of the best poetry written by Michigan writers. A second Third Coast anthology was published in 1988 with many new poets and a wider range of styles. New Poems from the Third Coast continues that tradition with fifty-six writers from across the state sharing their poetic glimpses of trout streams, schoolroo ..."
"In 1976, Wayne State University Press published The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, an anthology that offered a sampling of the best poetry written by Michigan writers. A second Third Coast anthology was published in 1988 with many new poets and a wider range of styles. New Poems from the Third Coast continues that tradition with fifty-six writers from across the state sharing their poetic glimpses of trout streams, schoolroo ..."