Paul Dry Books
@pauldrybooks.bsky.social
Indie publisher est. 2000. Essays, philosophy, science, and the cult smash of 1930, His Monkey Wife.
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
A little elegy for my aunt from the October issue of @theatlantic.com. I am immensely grateful to Walt Hunter for giving it space on the shelf.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
September 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
A little elegy for my aunt from the October issue of @theatlantic.com. I am immensely grateful to Walt Hunter for giving it space on the shelf.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
I was thrilled by the reviews of my last book--so many were works of art in their own right! Not Kirkus. "Cheap sleep aid, non-habit-forming,"* they wrote--and that was the kindest part! BUT check out Kirkus on my new book! We are friends again! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
September 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I was thrilled by the reviews of my last book--so many were works of art in their own right! Not Kirkus. "Cheap sleep aid, non-habit-forming,"* they wrote--and that was the kindest part! BUT check out Kirkus on my new book! We are friends again! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Big congratulations to Jeanne Bonner! Her translation of Edith Bruck's THIS DARKNESS WILL NEVER END is on the shortlist for ALTA's Italian Prose in Translation Award. @consortiumbooks.bsky.social @littranslate.bsky.social
🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2026 shortlists for the following prizes!
🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award, offered in partnership with the Spain-USA Foundation
buff.ly/YYsqUw4
🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award, offered in partnership with the Spain-USA Foundation
buff.ly/YYsqUw4
September 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Big congratulations to Jeanne Bonner! Her translation of Edith Bruck's THIS DARKNESS WILL NEVER END is on the shortlist for ALTA's Italian Prose in Translation Award. @consortiumbooks.bsky.social @littranslate.bsky.social
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @pauldrybooks.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social #booksky #bookreview
Our Week in Reviews: 8/29/26 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com
August 29, 2026 at 1:14 PM
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @pauldrybooks.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social #booksky #bookreview
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
Controlling women then; controlling women now. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @pauldrybooks.bsky.social #smut #comstockact #booksky #bookreview #obscenity
Smut: An 1883 Obscenity Trial and Its Echoes Today | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com
August 24, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Controlling women then; controlling women now. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @pauldrybooks.bsky.social #smut #comstockact #booksky #bookreview #obscenity
August 18, 2026 at 7:51 PM
The Polish Review on THE HOMELESS by Stefan Żeromski, trans. Stephanie Kraft: "One of the most striking aspects of Kraft’s translation is her ability to convey the novel’s rich sense of place. . . . An essential addition to the canon of translated Polish literature." #PolishLit
shorturl.at/HDpxb
shorturl.at/HDpxb
The Homeless [Ludzie bezdomni]
The Young Poland literary movement, active from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, was crucial in revitalizing Polish literature and culture during a period of political partition and cul...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
August 7, 2026 at 8:18 PM
The Polish Review on THE HOMELESS by Stefan Żeromski, trans. Stephanie Kraft: "One of the most striking aspects of Kraft’s translation is her ability to convey the novel’s rich sense of place. . . . An essential addition to the canon of translated Polish literature." #PolishLit
shorturl.at/HDpxb
shorturl.at/HDpxb
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
The great Cynthia Haven weighs in, briefly, on Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED in @thetls.bsky.social!
“Brilliantly translated… Voloshin attempts to come to grips with the sweep of the twentieth century, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor.”
@pauldrybooks.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
“Brilliantly translated… Voloshin attempts to come to grips with the sweep of the twentieth century, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor.”
@pauldrybooks.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
They sold their shadows
One of Russia’s lesser-known poets worked as an actor, a waiter, a soldier and a military officer in the years after the Bolshevik Revolution and the
www.the-tls.com
August 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The great Cynthia Haven weighs in, briefly, on Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED in @thetls.bsky.social!
“Brilliantly translated… Voloshin attempts to come to grips with the sweep of the twentieth century, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor.”
@pauldrybooks.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
“Brilliantly translated… Voloshin attempts to come to grips with the sweep of the twentieth century, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor.”
@pauldrybooks.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
Take a glimpse behind the curtain with Anthea Kreston, #AllClassicalRadio’s 2026-2027 Artist in Residence.
In her new blog series, Chronicles of an Adventurous Violinist, she peels back the layers of a life jam-packed with performances and more.
💻: allclassical.org/anthea
In her new blog series, Chronicles of an Adventurous Violinist, she peels back the layers of a life jam-packed with performances and more.
💻: allclassical.org/anthea
July 21, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Take a glimpse behind the curtain with Anthea Kreston, #AllClassicalRadio’s 2026-2027 Artist in Residence.
In her new blog series, Chronicles of an Adventurous Violinist, she peels back the layers of a life jam-packed with performances and more.
💻: allclassical.org/anthea
In her new blog series, Chronicles of an Adventurous Violinist, she peels back the layers of a life jam-packed with performances and more.
💻: allclassical.org/anthea
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD is "a self-published novella-in-verse composed in rhyming couplets by a White Army officer turned professional background actor."
Eric Bies reviews @bdralyuk.bsky.social's marvelous translation of the book (from Paul Dry Books).
ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/07/30/s...
Eric Bies reviews @bdralyuk.bsky.social's marvelous translation of the book (from Paul Dry Books).
ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/07/30/s...
Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood by Alexander Voloshin
Reviewed by Eric Bies
ocreviewofbooks.org
July 30, 2026 at 7:36 AM
SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD is "a self-published novella-in-verse composed in rhyming couplets by a White Army officer turned professional background actor."
Eric Bies reviews @bdralyuk.bsky.social's marvelous translation of the book (from Paul Dry Books).
ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/07/30/s...
Eric Bies reviews @bdralyuk.bsky.social's marvelous translation of the book (from Paul Dry Books).
ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/07/30/s...
David Skeel, author of PROMISE LAND (coming next month), on the 5 Best Books on Bankruptcy Battles in the @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Five Best Books on Bankruptcy Battles
The author of “Promise Land” on clashes in the boardroom and the courtroom that came after the money ran out.
www.wsj.com
July 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM
David Skeel, author of PROMISE LAND (coming next month), on the 5 Best Books on Bankruptcy Battles in the @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
KIRKUS REVIEWS on SMUT by Carol Kammen:
“Kammen’s writing is engaging throughout, and her argument connecting 1883 to the present day is persuasive. A narrow slice of local history that opens, unexpectedly, onto the present.” #history #NY
Publishing 8/18
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
“Kammen’s writing is engaging throughout, and her argument connecting 1883 to the present day is persuasive. A narrow slice of local history that opens, unexpectedly, onto the present.” #history #NY
Publishing 8/18
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
SMUT | Kirkus Reviews
A historian chronicles an 1883 trial concerning the sale of pornographic materials.
www.kirkusreviews.com
July 27, 2026 at 7:16 PM
KIRKUS REVIEWS on SMUT by Carol Kammen:
“Kammen’s writing is engaging throughout, and her argument connecting 1883 to the present day is persuasive. A narrow slice of local history that opens, unexpectedly, onto the present.” #history #NY
Publishing 8/18
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
“Kammen’s writing is engaging throughout, and her argument connecting 1883 to the present day is persuasive. A narrow slice of local history that opens, unexpectedly, onto the present.” #history #NY
Publishing 8/18
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Don't miss our SUMMER SALE! 35% OFF all in-stock books, plus a free tote for orders $50+. Sale ends tomorrow.
www.pauldrybooks.com
www.pauldrybooks.com
July 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Don't miss our SUMMER SALE! 35% OFF all in-stock books, plus a free tote for orders $50+. Sale ends tomorrow.
www.pauldrybooks.com
www.pauldrybooks.com
“A shrewd and ominous insider account of a government in financial free fall.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social on PROMISE LAND by David Skeel, coming August 25
www.publishersweekly.com/9781589882157
www.publishersweekly.com/9781589882157
Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis by David Skeel
The scramble to claw money back from Puerto Rico’s insolvent government is recapped by an official charged with overseeing its b...
www.publishersweekly.com
June 24, 2026 at 2:53 PM
“A shrewd and ominous insider account of a government in financial free fall.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social on PROMISE LAND by David Skeel, coming August 25
www.publishersweekly.com/9781589882157
www.publishersweekly.com/9781589882157
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
I can’t call this a review, exactly, although it is surely as careful a reading as my work has ever received. Hard to express what it means to me, this pat on the back from a giant, my teacher, Robert Chandler.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/side...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/side...
An Epic of Displacement | Los Angeles Review of Books
Boris Dralyuk’s latest work of translation is Alexander Voloshin’s poetic epic about a Ukrainian exile lost in Hollywood.
lareviewofbooks.org
June 23, 2026 at 1:21 PM
I can’t call this a review, exactly, although it is surely as careful a reading as my work has ever received. Hard to express what it means to me, this pat on the back from a giant, my teacher, Robert Chandler.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/side...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/side...
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 6/9 from Roof Books, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Fire Ant Books, @kayapress.bsky.social, @thedialpress.bsky.social, @holycowpubs.bsky.social & @pauldrybooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
New Poetry Titles (6/9/26)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 6/9 from Roof Books, University of Calgary Press, Fire Ant Books, Kaya Press, Dial Press, Holy Cow! Press & Paul Dry Books.
phillychapbookreview.org
June 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 6/9 from Roof Books, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Fire Ant Books, @kayapress.bsky.social, @thedialpress.bsky.social, @holycowpubs.bsky.social & @pauldrybooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
Reviews of Dana Gioia books @pauldrybooks.bsky.social from Italian Americana 43.2:
📕Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays, reviewed by Barbara Carle scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
📘Weep, Shudder, Die, reviewed by Andrea Mariani scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
📕Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays, reviewed by Barbara Carle scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
📘Weep, Shudder, Die, reviewed by Andrea Mariani scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
June 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Reviews of Dana Gioia books @pauldrybooks.bsky.social from Italian Americana 43.2:
📕Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays, reviewed by Barbara Carle scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
📘Weep, Shudder, Die, reviewed by Andrea Mariani scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
📕Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays, reviewed by Barbara Carle scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
📘Weep, Shudder, Die, reviewed by Andrea Mariani scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis #PuertoRico #UnitedStates #debt #economichistory #imperialism #colonialism latamrob.substack.com/p/forgotten-...
Forgotten island
Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, David Skeel
latamrob.substack.com
May 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis #PuertoRico #UnitedStates #debt #economichistory #imperialism #colonialism latamrob.substack.com/p/forgotten-...
Over Memorial Day weekend, Dr. Patrick Tripp, author of IN THE BASEMENT AT THE VA, spoke with the radio program What's Health Got to Do with It?
news.wjct.org/show/whats-h...
#books #writing #medical #voices
news.wjct.org/show/whats-h...
#books #writing #medical #voices
Care beyond the battlefield
For a special Memorial Day program, we examine how veterans navigate the complexities of the healthcare system, and we highlight the critical need for specialized care for service members after servic...
news.wjct.org
May 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Over Memorial Day weekend, Dr. Patrick Tripp, author of IN THE BASEMENT AT THE VA, spoke with the radio program What's Health Got to Do with It?
news.wjct.org/show/whats-h...
#books #writing #medical #voices
news.wjct.org/show/whats-h...
#books #writing #medical #voices
This stack of galleys makes us laugh each time we see it.
Coming in August! shorturl.at/O1g51
Coming in August! shorturl.at/O1g51
May 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This stack of galleys makes us laugh each time we see it.
Coming in August! shorturl.at/O1g51
Coming in August! shorturl.at/O1g51
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
The New York Review of Books calls FRIEZE FRAME by A. E. Stallings a "lively, ingenious, humane set of essays." @nybooks.com @consortiumbooks.bsky.social #elginmarbles #parthenon #Greece #BritishMuseum #poetry
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Marbles & the Muses | James Romm
A.E. Stallings’s reflections on the Elgin Marbles illustrate how beautiful objects have the power to inspire both the noblest effusions and the pettiest efforts at acquisition.
www.nybooks.com
March 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The New York Review of Books calls FRIEZE FRAME by A. E. Stallings a "lively, ingenious, humane set of essays." @nybooks.com @consortiumbooks.bsky.social #elginmarbles #parthenon #Greece #BritishMuseum #poetry
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
Thrilled to see Devon Jersild's LUMINOUS BODIES on @nytimes.com list of "Dazzling, Immersive New #HistoricalFiction."
"Choosing to narrate Curie’s experiences in an inventive first-person voice adds immediacy to a story filled with dramatic triumphs and disappointments."
shorturl.at/USb6S
"Choosing to narrate Curie’s experiences in an inventive first-person voice adds immediacy to a story filled with dramatic triumphs and disappointments."
shorturl.at/USb6S
Dazzling, Immersive New Historical Fiction
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Thrilled to see Devon Jersild's LUMINOUS BODIES on @nytimes.com list of "Dazzling, Immersive New #HistoricalFiction."
"Choosing to narrate Curie’s experiences in an inventive first-person voice adds immediacy to a story filled with dramatic triumphs and disappointments."
shorturl.at/USb6S
"Choosing to narrate Curie’s experiences in an inventive first-person voice adds immediacy to a story filled with dramatic triumphs and disappointments."
shorturl.at/USb6S
Thank you @danielleofri.bsky.social for your kind words about IN THE BASEMENT AT THE VA: STORIES FROM A CANCER DOCTOR by Patrick Tripp, MD.
Officially out on 5/26. Now shipping at our website: tinyurl.com/3t3sb9ad
Officially out on 5/26. Now shipping at our website: tinyurl.com/3t3sb9ad
May 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Thank you @danielleofri.bsky.social for your kind words about IN THE BASEMENT AT THE VA: STORIES FROM A CANCER DOCTOR by Patrick Tripp, MD.
Officially out on 5/26. Now shipping at our website: tinyurl.com/3t3sb9ad
Officially out on 5/26. Now shipping at our website: tinyurl.com/3t3sb9ad
Reposted by Paul Dry Books
Hugely uplifted by Isabel Jacobs’s lovely review of Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED in the vital print-only TRANSLATOR mag!
“[C]omes alive in Dralyuk’s inventive and often hilarious translation. … [D]epicts Hollywood between the wars as a place of hustle, rather than glamour.”
“[C]omes alive in Dralyuk’s inventive and often hilarious translation. … [D]epicts Hollywood between the wars as a place of hustle, rather than glamour.”
May 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Hugely uplifted by Isabel Jacobs’s lovely review of Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED in the vital print-only TRANSLATOR mag!
“[C]omes alive in Dralyuk’s inventive and often hilarious translation. … [D]epicts Hollywood between the wars as a place of hustle, rather than glamour.”
“[C]omes alive in Dralyuk’s inventive and often hilarious translation. … [D]epicts Hollywood between the wars as a place of hustle, rather than glamour.”
Thank you to @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social and the Polish Cultural Institute for your discussion with translator Stephanie Kraft. Listen to learn more about THE HOMELESS, author Stefan Zeromski, and Stephanie's unusual path to becoming a translator of Polish literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAf5...
Stefan Żeromski with Stephanie Kraft – Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S6E5
YouTube video by Polish Cultural Institute in New York
www.youtube.com
May 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Thank you to @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social and the Polish Cultural Institute for your discussion with translator Stephanie Kraft. Listen to learn more about THE HOMELESS, author Stefan Zeromski, and Stephanie's unusual path to becoming a translator of Polish literature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAf5...