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Night Moves: Stuart Dybek @ Kelly Writers House
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
posted by Patrick Rapa
categories Get Lit, Night Moves
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I've never read Stuart Dybek's novels — Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed With Magellan — but I can tell you his short stories are right on. Sick, funny, dark stuff. "Breasts," included in the 2004 Best American Short Stories collection, was about a hitman who keeps getting distracted from his targets by chicks willing to perform a certain dirty deed. He had an excellent story in Harper's last year about a right fielder who just disappears. Click here to read "The Road to Cordoba," a piece he wrote The Washington Post last year. Tonight Dybek reads at KWH.
Tonight, 6 p.m., free, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, more info here and here.
Dybek is one of my favorite writers. His stories may be “sick, funny, dark stuff,” but it is lyrical and so beautifully written. His short story “Chopin in Winter” is one of my all time favorites.