Topic: February 2005
Fans of Stuart Dybek can read a nice review of his work, and especially of his latest I Sailed With Magellan, in this arts feature published in the Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Reviewer Theresa Weaver writes: "Dybek, of Polish and Mexican heritage, occupies a secure place among some of the great writers who have come to define the Chicago tradition. Building on the realism that marks Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy and Nelson Algren's "The Man With the Golden Arm, Dybek injects a magic realism more reminiscent of Franz Kafka or Gabriel Garcia Marquez."