Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Ev…

- Stuart Dybek

In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marb…

- Stuart Dybek

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

- 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 couldn'…

- Stuart Dybek

From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a compell…

- 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 FABRIC OF SPA…

- 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 lost, wastin…

- Stuart Dybek

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

- 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 …

- Stuart Dybek