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  • Childhood and Other Neighborhoods

    Stories

    by Stuart Dybek ...
    In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places—in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters become exotic landscapes of fear-filled possibility, of dreams not yet turned to nightmares. Chronicling ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Streets in Their Own Ink

    Poems

    by Stuart Dybek ...
    In a city like that one might sailthrough life led by a runaway hat.The young scattered in whatever directionstheir wild hair pointed and, gustinginto one another, they fell in love.--from "Windy City"In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A b... ... Read more

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  • Ecstatic Cahoots

    Fifty Short Stories

    by Stuart Dybek ...
    In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives each tale his signature mix of characters—some almost ghostly, others vividly real—who live in worlds tinged with surreal potential. There are crazed nuns hijacking streetcars, eerie adventures ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Paper Lantern

    Love Stories

    by Stuart Dybek ...
    A new collection of short stories with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love from "not only our most relevant writer, but maybe our best" (Darin Strauss, The New York Times Book Review ).Operatically dramatic and intimately lyrical, grittily urban and impressionistically natural, the varied fictions in Paper Lantern all focus on the turmoil of love as only Dybek can portray it. An ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2025 Guest-edited by Peggy Shumaker

    by Peggy Shumaker, Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim S. Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, Kelli Russell Agodon, William Archilla, Rick Barot, Lory Bedikian, Jocko Benoit, Fleda Brown, Susan Campbell, Jeanne E. Clark, Madelyn Chen, Kevin Clark, Lindsay D'Andrea, David Daniel, Oliver de la Paz, Mai Der Vang, Stuart Dybek, Leila Farjami, Kevin Goodan, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Sean Hill, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Kimberly Johnson, L.A. Johnson, Brian Komei Dempster, Douglas Manuel, Chloe Martinez, Cleopatra Mathis, Jennifer Militello, Triin Paja, Susanna J. Mishler, Hilda Raz, James Richardson, Alberto Ríos, Nicholas Samaras, William Pitt Root, Lis Sanchez, Elaine Sexton, Maurya Simon, Frank Soos, Brian Tierney, Pamela Uschuk ...
    The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Coast of Chicago

    Stories

    by Stuart Dybek ...
    The stolid landscape of Chicago turns dreamlike and otherworldly in these "miraculous tales . . . a collection for the ages" ( Kirkus ).A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss.In ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2016-2017

    by Bill Knott, Daniel Lawless, Katie Knoll, Rob Hardy, Tristan Hughes, Mairead Small Staid, Irina Reyn, sam sax, Tony Hoagland, Stuart Dybek, Terese Svodoba ...
    The Winter 2016-17 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.This staff edited issue of Ploughshares features a vibrant collection of essays, poems, and short stories. Whether it’s ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • I Sailed with Magellan

    by Stuart Dybek ...
    "All are gems; each glistens with Dybek's spare poetry; combined, they form a vibrant mosaic about a boy's coming of age . . . [An] A." ― Entertainment WeeklyA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Best B... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Are We There Yet?

    by Stuart Dybek, Dorothy Thomas, Annie Proulx, Edward P. Jones, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, Martha Gellhorn ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka, Mia Dillon, Andrea Marcovicci, David Rakoff, James Naughton, Joanna Gleason, Sonia Manzano ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    3 hours 7 min

    A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.This anthology of tales about people in transit features Stuart Dybek's "Pet Milk", read by Keith Szarabajka; ... Read more

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  • The Pleasures of the Damned

    Poems, 1951-1993

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, America’s most influential and imitated American poet.To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of ... Read more

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  • Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterBurning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.From the horse track to the flophouse, these are dispatches from the edge.Gritty Poetry: ... Read more

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  • sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way

    New Poems

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America.Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of ... Read more

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