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Indie publisher est. 2000. Essays, philosophy, science, and the cult smash of 1930, His Monkey Wife.
"He wasnât a safecracker like Jimmy Valentine or a kidnapper like the bumbling main characters in The Ransom of Red Chief, but he had a colorful history before he landed in New York." ALIAS O. HENRY author Ben Yagoda speak with Paul Davis for "On Crime."
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My Online On Crime Column: My Q&A With Ben Yagoda, The Author Of 'Alias O. Henry,' A Novel About The Late, Great Short Story Writer.
Ben Yagoda is the author, coauthor or editor of fourteen books, including an edition of O. Henryâs short stories for the Library of America....
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Thank you
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John Wilson on AE Stallings' FRIEZE FRAME: "I relished every page. Stallings packs so much into her accountâso many interesting people, such a wealth of incidentâyet does so with ease. Her book is at once compact and compendious..."
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John Wilsonâs Year of Reading - First Things
This list would have been different a couple of months ago, or yesterdayâmaybe even in the wee hours tonightâbut here are some of the books I particularly enjoyed (excluding...
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Read an interview with Erin OâLuanaigh about her debut collection, AVAIL (
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Falling into Place: An Interview with Erin OâLuanaigh
By Nicholas Pierce
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âIn exile, although little of their material comfort remains, they havenât lost their artistic sensibility or their will to create.â - Sara Gothelf Bloom new
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Q&A with Sara Gothelf Bloom
Photo by David Aldera   Sara Gothelf Bloom is the author of the new novel Just Enough to Start Over . She spent many y...
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There are still a few hours left to find the perfect gift ON SALE!
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Q&A with Sara Gothelf Bloom about her new novel, JUST ENOUGH TO START OVER.
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Congratulations to William Pritchard! His book ON FROST AND ELIOT has been named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's
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Outstanding Academic Titles 2025 - Choice 360
Read the latestOutstanding Academic Titles 2025 created for academic librarians by Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine.
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For the
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Almost all of our poetry titles are under $15 (until 12/5).
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Love the âsuddenlyâ & âbecome.â
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âI love the whole atmosphere and can spend hours browsingâ: how did bookshops suddenly become cool?
A new survey suggests that young people are shunning AI algorithms and online retailers to experience the joy of visiting bookshops
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The perfect stocking stuffer for the big readers on your list! Now 35% OFF!
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Sidetracked no more! Alexander Voloshinâs long, lonely wait is nearly over. Thank you,
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Sara Gothelf Bloom's luminous debut novel (officially publishing next month) is now shipping when you order at our website.
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In the mail: very excited to see ARC of đđđđđĄđđđđđđ: đžđ„đđđ đđ đ»đđđđŠđ€đđđ, a "mock epic" (yes, it's in verse !), by Alexander Voloshin (tr.
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Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood
Translation and Introduction by Boris Dralyuk98-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589882126Publication Date: 4/21/2026 (available for preorder)The first English translation of a 1953 mock epic o...
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Montreal International Poetry Prize
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2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER BORIS DRALYUK Boris Dralyuk is the author of âMy Hollywood and Other Poemsâ (
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, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic. Find him
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
and
bdralyuk.wordpress.com
!
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"This clever portrait of one of the early 20th centuryâs most prolific short-story writers captures a rich period in Manhattanâs history." -
@washingtonpost.com
on ALIAS O. HENRY by Ben Yagoda
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5 historical novels that deliver a perfect escape from the present
Delve into imaginative novels by Philippa Gregory, Allyson Reedy, Ben Yagoda, Jillian Forsberg and Olga Ravn.
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If I could dance, Iâd be dancing at the sight of the latest
@thetls.bsky.social
! Simon Morrison, who knows all there is to know about 20th-C. music, has written a humdinger of a piece on Vernon Dukeâs memoir and poems, out now from
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A novella? In verse? About Russian exiles? In Hollywood? Translated by
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? How nice that they're publishing books just for my very exact specific tastes! Not sure what the rest of you will do. (Due next April)
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Thank you for your enthusiastic response to our 2nd edition of So Many Books. Grant Silverstein's clever illustrations include famous authors and literary characters, so we've put together a SO MANY BOOKS QUIZ! Take a look + send answers by 10/25
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Don't miss Ben Yagoda, author of ALIAS O. HENRY, at Celia Bookshop in Swarthmore, tomorrow night!
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Thank you Foreword Reviews for your starred review of JUST ENOUGH TO START OVER by Sara Gothelf Bloom, coming 12/2.
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Italian Jews represented only a fraction of Italyâs populationâbut left an enormous mark on Italian society. đźđčâĄïž In the latest episode of our
#podcast
, CEO Dan Mariaschin speaks with Dr. Gino SegrĂš about his new book, âThe Golden Age of Italian Jews, 1848â1938.â Explore the full episode: đ
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The Golden Age of Italian Jews | With Dr. Gino SegrĂš
CEO Dan Mariaschin speaks with physicist and historian Dr. Gino SegrĂš about his new book, âThe Golden Age of Italian Jews, 1848â1938.â
https://www.bnaibrith.org/golden-age-of-italian-jews-podcast/
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An Evening of Poetry with A.E. Stallings Wednesday, October 15 Head House Books, Philadelphia Paul Dry Books author A. E. Stallings will be reading at Head House Books along with Nicholas Friedman and Luke Stromberg. You can buy your $5 ticket here
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New today!
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âA strong debut that weaves time, place, and history gracefully.â -
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on JUST ENOUGH TO START OVER by Sara Gothelf Bloom, coming 12/2.
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Coming next week!
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Last day for our sale!
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"My famÂiÂly hisÂtoÂry in Italy reflects both the highs and lows of the JewÂish expeÂriÂence here from 1848 to 1938." ~Gino SegÂrĂš This author traces his family history in Italy from 1848 to 1938, as laws and public opinion shifted.
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Exploring the Golden Age of Italian Jews
My interest in writing my new book, The Golden Age of Italian Jews: From 1848 to 1938,
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The
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The Golden Age of Italian Jews: 1848-1938
Within the Jewish diaspora, Italian Jews have enjoyed a unique history. Neither Sephardim nor Ashkenazi, Jews first arrived in Rome two thousand years ago, directly from their homeland.
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Happy pub day to Gino Segre! Kirkus Reviews said "Italian Jewry offers a lesson in ambition and resilience, patriotism and bravery."
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Kirkus Reviews calls Gino Segre's new book "A fluent, personal account of the role of Italian
#Jews
in the making of modern Europe." Noting "Italian Jewry offers a lesson in ambition and resilience, patriotism and bravery."
#history
#Italy
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN JEWS | Kirkus Reviews
Acceptance, then persecution.
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In this short video, Dana Gioia (author of WEEP, SHUDDER, DIE) explains why
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is the ultimate combination of
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Why Opera is Misunderstood
YouTube video by Dana Gioia
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The LA Times photo below was taken at the Hollywood Bowl in 1938. The fourth man from the left is Alexander Voloshin, whose poem SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD will appear from
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in April 2026. Here I give some context to the shot:
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The incomparable
@tedgioia.bsky.social
has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you arenât a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club!
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How an Exiled Russian Noble Became a Great American Songwriter
His story spans everything from Belarus to Balanchine to Bacharach
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New today! Vernon Duke's richly detailed memoir of a life in emigration and of a dual career in the âseriousâ and âpopularâ music worlds. New edition includes an Introduction by
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
as well as his translations of Duke's original poems.
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6 months ago
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New from Gino Segre, the author of The Pope of Physics, comes THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN JEWS. Now shipping:
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Thank you, Alex Ross, for your praise of PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS by Vernon Duke! With a new Introduction by
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. Officially out tomorrow, now shipping from
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Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Dukeâs PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS. In prose and verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrantâs melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CAâthe dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920).
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The
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says "Jason Brownâs latest novel captures the power of place" and calls OUTERMARK "a thoroughly lived-in
#novel
, the allure and dangers of the island at its heart waiting to be discovered."
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#summer
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Jason Brownâs latest novel captures the power of place
'Outermark' tells the complicated story of trouble on a Maine island.
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calls POETRY AS ENCHANTMENT by Dana Gioia "a great pleasure to read" and "brilliant."
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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays by Dana Gioia
Paul Dry Books. 2024. 272 pages.
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â[A] compact, original book . . . the Marbles will always be one of historyâs singular Rorschach tests. Keats saw beauty; Byron saw tragedy; in FRIEZE FRAME, readers may see some version of themselves.â
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on FRIEZE FRAME by
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âFrieze Frameâ Review: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles
In early 19th-century London, the arrival of temple artworks taken from the Acropolis of Athens inspired both poetic raptures and angry condemnations.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/frieze-frame-review-the-case-of-the-parthenon-marbles-382783d5
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"Highly entertaining. . .The anecdotal style of FRIEZE FRAME works wonderfully for a story driven by a few characters and their mad antics."â@thespectator1828.bsky.social on
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⏠new book, a gossipy history of the Parthenon Marbles
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Itâs a wonder that the Parthenon remains standing at all
We all have our own vision of the Parthenon. Lord Elgin, for one, seems to have treated it like Harrods. Hoping to decorate his Scottish stately home with the Marbles, he wrote long instructions to hi...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-a-wonder-that-the-parthenon-remains-standing-at-all/
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"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 Literary Supplement on FRIEZE FRAME by A. E. Stallings
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The long debate
To return or not to return? That is the question that has defined the long-running debate around the sculptures made almost 2,500 years ago to adorn the buildings of the Acropolis of Athens. They tend...
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Poetic justice for the Parthenon Marbles? In her new book, âFrieze Frameâ, A.E. Stallings captures the intense excitement the marbles caused in artistic circles when they arrived in London â and the sense of loss felt by Greek writers of the 19th and 20th centuries
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Poetic justice for the Parthenon marbles | Apollo Magazine
In âFrieze Frameâ, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the marbles. She explains to Fatema Ahmed why they now deserve a new lease of life
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Thank you
@foreignpolicy.com
for this very thoughtful review of THE ANACONDA IN THE CHANDELIER.
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