Readings

New American Writing: Stuart Dybek

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Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction—Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed with Magellan—as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Among Dybek’s numerous awards are a MacArthur Prize, a Rea Award, and a PEN/Malamud Prize. He is distinguished writer in residence at Northwestern University and a member of the permanent faculty for Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program.

Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, the Hammer Programs Committee, and Susan and Leonard Nimoy.