Like Russell Banks and Raymond Carver, his contemporaries, Andre Dubus is often perceived as a "son of Ernest Hemingway," a judgment that would please neither Hemingway nor Dubus but one that serves as a rough -- often very rough -- frame of reference...

A writer's writer In a review of Andre Dubus's Selected Stories, fellow novelist Anne Tyler commented about the risky ending of perhaps Dubus's best short work, "A Father's Story": "He has a way of stepping forth, however thin the ice." A risky...

Andre Dubus. Broken Vessels: Essays, Boston: David R. Godine, 1991. In the years before his death by heart attack last year, Andre Dubus (pronounced dub-YOOSE"), was considered by many readers and writers the best short story writer working in America. As Tobias Wolff...

In the following critical assessment of Dubus's short stories published between 1977 to 1985, Yarbrough asserts that Dubus's fiction-writing talents are best showcased in his longer short stories.

Kennedy is an American author and critic whose Andre Dubus: A Study of the Short Fiction was published in 1988. In the following essay, Kennedy traces the theme of progressing from solitude to love in three of Dubus's novellas.

Kennedy is an American author, educator, and critic. In the following excerpt of an interview originally published in the February 1987 issue of Delta and based on conversations and correspondence between Kennedy and Dubus during an eighteen-month period of time in the mid-1980s, Dubus discusses his characters, his works, and the writing process.