For The Week magazine, Kidder named his six best books. One book on his list:
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I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek (Picador, $15).
Stuart Dybek is one of America’s best living short-story writers, an original. His stories, many of them set in his native Chicago, have a haunting, myth-like quality, but they escape easy classification. I Sailed With Magellan is his third volume of stories. In some ways, it’s his best.Read about another book on Kidder's list.
The Page 99 Test: Stuart Dybek's I Sailed with Magellan.
--Marshal Zeringue