Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between… — Stuart Dybek Feelings Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of… — Stuart Dybek Accomplished Copy Share Image
“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as… — Stuart Dybek Art Copy Share Image
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR… — Stuart Dybek Effects Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's something other than insomnia, to lie listening to children yelling as if they've re-created light; to try to dream, but… — Stuart Dybek Another day Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up… — Stuart Dybek Behinds Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never… — Stuart Dybek Baseball Copy Share Image
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the… — Stuart Dybek Age Copy Share Image
“I had this sudden awareness,' she continues, 'of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of… — Stuart Dybek Life Copy Share Image
“In summer, waiting for night, we’d pose against the afterglow on corners, watching traffic cruise through the neighborhood. Sometimes, a car would… — Stuart Dybek Somewhere else Copy Share Image
“What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What… — Stuart Dybek Art Copy Share Image
From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop… — Stuart Dybek Authenticity Copy Share Image
Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown… — Stuart Dybek Absence Copy Share Image
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor… — Stuart Dybek Block Copy Share Image
“I had this sudden awareness, she continues, of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of… — Stuart Dybek Falling in love Copy Share Image
“I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories -… — Stuart Dybek Dreams Copy Share Image
