Stuart Dybek is the author of five books. His two collections of poems are Brass Knuckles (Carnegie Mellon, 1979) and Streets in Their Own Ink published by FS&G in 2004. His fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and most recently I Sailed With Magellan, a novel-in-stories. Dybek’s work has won numerous awards–a Lannan Prize, a Pen/Malamud Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim, and numerous O. Henry Prizes and inclusions in Best American Fiction and Best American Poetry among them. His work is frequently anthologized and appears regularly in magazines such as Harper’s, The New Yorker, Atlantic, Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly. Dybek teaches at Northwestern University.
Stories in Smokelong Quarterly
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Mole Man
Interview: Smoking with Stuart Dybek
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Brisket
Interview: Smoking With Stuart Dybek
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