Dybek, Genius

Anyone who has read Stuart Dybek's wonderful short stories would have to agree with him being honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a/k/a the "Genius Grant."

"For me, it couldn't have been more fortuitous, more serendipitous," Dybek said. "For the last 10 years, I've been working on three different manuscripts...and it's getting kind of crowded in my head. It's like walking around pregnant all the time. Nevermind the pains of childbirth, you just want to get it over with so you can resume your human shape."

My heartfelt congrats to a good guy and great writer.

Update: Dybek's profile at the MacArthur site can be read here - "an almost palpable sense of place" puts it rather nicely.