Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek is a Chicago fiction writer whose The Coast of Chicago is a lyrical, elegiac portrait of Polish-American neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side, widely considered one of the finest short story collections of the late twentieth century.
Works
- Childhood and Other NeighborhoodsComing-of-age collection set in working-class Chicago neighborhoods
- The Coast of ChicagoInterconnected tales of erotic longing and loss in urban Chicago landscape
- I Sailed with MagellanInterconnected stories exploring memory, immigration, and nostalgia in Chicago setting
- Paper LanternPoetic stories exploring memory, desire, and immigration in Japanese-American community
- Ecstatic CahootsEcstatic collection of stories celebrating intoxicated joy and human connection