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I didn't really enjoy this book. Whilst the characters and their urban environments were no doubt realistic, I was glad to get to the end. Nineteen fairly depressing stories left me feeling kind of ... depressed and despairing in already gloomy times. Was that the point?
The first round-up of Stuart Dybek's short stories (so far as I know) published in the U.K. Dybek combines an in-depth knowledge of inner city life with an throbbing sense of beauty, like Nelson Algren fused with Vladimir Nabokov. I've admired Dybek since buying an import copy of The Coast of Chicago over a decade ago. A mystery is why the star piece of that collection, 'Hot Ice', is not included here. The whole piece is a gem and its omission here is woeful. The recent work is the weakest - too...
[Earlier this year, I had the honor of being asked to join the staff of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, specifically to help choose the honoree each year of the organization's Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement. 2018's recipient was Stuart Dybek, and I was asked to write a critical overview of his work for the accompanying program. I'm reprinting it in full below.]It’s been a fascinating thing this month to read through the entire prose oeuvre of Stuart Dybek in chronological order for the...
"It was the first time I'd ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with."
