Paul Dry Books
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On Frost and Eliot
$25.95 Read moreNamed a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association’s Choice Reviews
Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But t
- Author: Pritchard, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882024
- Language: English
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Luminous Bodies: A Novel of Marie Curie
$22.95 Read more“Devon Jersild’s beautiful novel is alchemic, bringing Marie Curie–the scientist, the lover, the mother, the immigrant, the Nobel Laureate–to life. This tense, moving, riveting story burns hot: it’s
- Author: Jersild, Devon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1589882105
- Language: English
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Just Enough to Start Over
$17.95 Add to cart“A deeply moving novel with so much soul on display that one can only rejoice.”
–Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and Borges and Me“A gorgeous novel, Just Enough to Start Over is a feat of imagi
- Author: Gothelf Bloom, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882083
- Language: English
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So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
$15.95 Read moreA charming new edition of a much-loved book about books
“A playful celebrant of literary proliferation.”–New Yorker
In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a
- Author: Zaid, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882075
- Language: English
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Alias O. Henry
$18.95 Add to cart“[A]n exuberant biographical novel . . . Riffing cleverly on O. Henry’s most cherished stories, Yagoda presents a vivid, witty, and delectable tale of crime and creativity.”
—Booklist“Alias O. Henry i
- Author: Yagoda, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882067
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Italian Jews: 1848-1938
$19.95 Add to cart“With this fine book, Gino Segr? weaves together the history of the golden era for Italian Jews, dating from its optimistic beginning in Piedmont in 1848 to its bitter end, less than 100 years later,
- Author: Segrè, Gino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 181
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882059
- Language: English
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Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and Their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon
$17.95 Read more“Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the reader into a coterie of artists and intellectuals, traced and uncovered with a poet’s touch.”
–Times L- Author: Stallings, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882008
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
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Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry
$19.95 Add to cart“Looking at opera from the standpoint of its texts, as only a gifted poet and librettist can do, Dana Gioia examines why a surprisingly small number of operas have attained a secure place in the reper
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881966
- Language: English
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Outermark
$17.95 Add to cart“A masterful work, catapulting the reader through the intricate history of Outermark with a sense of immersion that is rare in contemporary fiction. Full of quiet grace, breathtaking moments of violen
- Author: Brown, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 158988194X
- Language: English
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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays
$21.95 Read more“Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881958
- Language: English
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Texas Grit: The Adventures of Wilder Good #2
$9.95 Read more“If you like Hank, you’ll like Wilder Good, too.”–John R. Erickson, author of Hank the Cowdog
“I am a big fan of this series. Last fall I included The Elk Hunt in my list of favorite books of 2013, an
- Series: Adventures of Wilder Good #2
- Author: Dahlstrom, S. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1589880943
- Language: English
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Zeno’s Eternity
$16.95 Read more“These sensitive and meditative poems offer up new ways to consider the passage of time.”–Publishers Weekly
“A moving collection that acknowledges the limitations of the human mind, but also the limit… [more below]- Author: Jarman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 85
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881702
- Language: English
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Heartwood Mountain: The Adventures of Wilder Good #8
$9.95 Read moreWhen thirteen-year-old Wilder and his friends Sunny and Corndog go down to the river for a horse ride, something panics Corndog into running away. Wilder and Sunny reluctantly return home without him,… [more below]
- Series: Adventures of Wilder Good #8
- Author: Dahlstrom, S. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881834
- Language: English
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Lost Bread
$18.95 Read moreBruck’s “spare prose captures the raw terror and bitter sorrow of the camps. She also finds lyrical beauty and unexpected joy in moments of calm. Reading her work is like breaking bread with her, seek… [more below]
- Author: Bruck, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881788
- Language: English
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Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet: Essays and Interviews
$19.95 Read more“Seasoned with a dash of [Su’s] meticulously crafted poetry and even a recipe, this collection celebrates words, culture, food, and the human act of making that binds them all together. A literary gou… [more below]
- Author: Su, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881923
- Language: English
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Observations of an Accidental Farmer–And a Mindful Reader
$19.95 Read moreIn forty short and charming chapters, a former “great books” teacher from New York City adapts to his new role on a small Southern farm by observing the natural world and drawing connections to his re… [more below]
- Author: Kavros, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881915
- Language: English
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I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit: An Epic of Diminished Proportions
$17.95 Read more“Dreesen presents an unusual and welcoming memoir-in-verse, an epic colloquial journey through his childhood in a chaotic, eight-kid family as they ran a 24-hour highway truck stop and popular roadhou
- Author: Dreesen, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881710
- Language: English
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Satan Talks to His Therapist
$16.95 Add to cart“If the LOLSOB emoji could write verse that both sings and stings, the result would be Satan Talks to His Therapist.”
“Balmain treads that f
–Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman- Author: Balmain, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881818
- Language: English
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Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus
$20.00 Read more“Joe Sachs is a national treasure. His brilliant translations from the Greek, spanning works from Homer to Aristotle, have long enriched scholars and students alike. He crowns those achievements with … [more below]
- Author: Sachs, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 158988177X
- Language: English
