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Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem…

— Stuart Dybek

Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as…

— Stuart Dybek

“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer…

— Stuart Dybek

In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE…

— Stuart Dybek

“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 succeed only…

— Stuart Dybek

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around…

— Stuart Dybek

“Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before…

— Stuart Dybek

But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we…

— Stuart Dybek

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

— Stuart Dybek

“I had this sudden awareness,' she continues, 'of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of having lived…

— Stuart Dybek

“In summer, waiting for night, we’d pose against the afterglow on corners, watching traffic cruise through the neighborhood. Sometimes, a car would go by…

— Stuart Dybek

“What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me…

— Stuart Dybek