Paper Lantern

Name: Paper Lantern
Author: Stuart Dybek

by Stuart Dybek

Poetic stories exploring memory, desire, and immigration in Japanese-American community

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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.

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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
Ecstatic CahootsEcstatic collection of stories celebrating intoxicated joy and human connection