The press materials for When Captain Flint Was Still A Good Man make a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to obscure the fact that debut novelist Nick Dybek is the son of Stuart Dybek, one of the most revered Chicago writers. That desire for distance is understandable, given the considerable literary shadow Dybek’s father casts, but a strength and clarity of vision has clearly passed from father to son. Like the raging sea the novel romanticizes, Captain Flint is a hypnotic, relentless debut that explores every man’s capability to become evil, and it introduces the younger Dybek as a thrilling talent to watch.
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