Hot Ice | Claire Kirch
In the following interview conducted in October 2003, Dybek discusses with Claire Kirch his youth in the ethnically mixed South Side of Chicago, and his discovery of and approach to writing.
Claire Kirch
In the following interview conducted in October 2003, Dybek discusses with Claire Kirch his youth in the ethnically mixed South Side of Chicago, and his discovery of and approach to writing.
You can take the man out of Chicago, but you can't take Chicago out of the man—especially if you are talking about Western Michigan University English professor Stuart Dybek. Though Dybek has lived in Kalamazoo for almost 30 years, his gritty yet magical short stories are set almost exclusively in the Southwest Side of Chicago (overlapping neighborhoods known...
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