Hot Ice | Criticism

  • David Kelly

    Kelly is an instructor of creative writing and literature. In this essay, Kelly explains how the story does not divert from conventional reality as much as it first appears to do so.

  • 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.

  • Thomas S. Gladsky

    In the following essay, Gladsky explores Dybek's rendering of ethnicity and cultural and spiritual heritage in his stories.