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Read a profile of William Zinsser in the New York Times

George Will's Washington Post column on The Writer Who Stayed, "William Zinsser and good writing as art"

"Zinsser—who, with On Writing Well, taught a whole lot of us how to set down a clean English sentence—last year won a National Magazine Award for his Friday web columns in The American Scholar. They're now in a collection that's completely charming, impeccably polished, and Strunk-and-White-ishly brief. He's the youngest 90-year-old you'll read this week."—New York Magazine on The Writer Who Stayed

"On Writing Well and Other Joys": The Wall Street Journal reviews The Writer Who Stayed by William Zinsser

Gary Borjesson, author of Willing Dogs, now has a blog: Idle Speculations.

"This is the kind of book you'll want to suggest to your dog lover's book club...sure to stir up heated debates about all things dog."—Willing Dogs reviewed at Fit as Fido

"The idea of the classic newspaperman is fading into the mists of time, as nonfiction becomes, for many purveyors, more about grabbing attention than in-depth writing. Luckily, William Zinsser is still among us; in The Writer Who Stayed, he applies his skills, and the art of the essay, to past and modern eras alike."— ForeWord reviews The Writer Who Stayed

Vlad Todorov, author of Zift, is participated in a conference at the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.

A 7th-grade student reviews Round & Round Together on Book Trends

TV segment with Amy Nathan, 12/15/2011, Girl on Merry-Go-Round Became Symbol of Civil Rights Struggle

"What History Can Teach the Occupiers: A Review of Round & Round Together" at The Pirate Tree

Strange Relation reviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Times Literary Supplement, and House of the Seven Tails.

Read "Tacking; or, a Zigzag Course Toward a Point" by Paul Dry

In the New York Review of Books, Malise Ruthven reviews The Other Side of the Mirror and writes about the state of Syria today. [link]

Listen to Brooke Allen's interview on The Leonard Lopate Show [link].

The Writer Who Stayed

William Zinsser

Adapted from "Zinsser on Friday," The American Scholar's National Magazine Award–Winning Essay Series

William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well and many . . . [read more]

The Summer House

Alice Thomas Ellis

"A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review

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The Fields of Light

Reuben Arthur Brower

New Foreword by William H. Pritchard

In this classic study, Harvard professor Reuben Brower guides the reader from noticing the alluring details of a well-made poem, novel, or play to attending to the encompassing ways in which the wr . . . [read more]

Birds, Peace, Wealth: Aristophanes' Critique of the Gods

Aristophanes

Three plays translated by Wayne Ambler and Thomas L. Pangle

These three comedies provoke searching reflections on the religious nature of humanity: What are the psychological sources of piety? What is longed for in and through piety? What would a god need t . . . [read more]

The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust

Howard Moss

New Foreword by Damion Searls

John Updike: "[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and . . . [read more]

Willing Dogs & Reluctant Masters

Gary Borjesson

With the help of Kestra (l.) and Atkis (r.), Gary Borjesson explores what it means to be friends—really friends—with a dog, and how that relationship can illuminate and inform the other . . . [read more]

Hide and Seek

Xan Fielding

New Foreword by Robert Messenger

Paul Dry Books is pleased to bring back into print Xan Fielding's classic—though notoriously hard-to-find—memoir of the resistance on Crete during World War II.

With a new forew . . . [read more]

The Stronghold

Xan Fielding

New Foreword by Robert Messenger

"Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous gaiety, and . . . [read more]

From Berlin to Jerusalem

Gershom Scholem

Foreword by Moshe Idel

"An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert Coles

From Berlin to Jerusalem portrays the dual dramas of . . . [read more]

On Jews and Judaism in Crisis

Gershom Scholem

Introduction by Werner Dannhauser

"These essays, dealing as they do with modern Jewish history, literature, and religion, sustain a continuity of conviction that cannot help but inspire a new generation of Jewish intellectual . . . [read more]

City Abandoned

Vincent D. Feldman

Philadelphia is rich with forgotten places surprisingly profound in their historical value. Architectural landmarks slowly crumble right in the heart of otherwise vibrant neighborhoods, given only . . . [read more]

Only the Longest Threads

Tasneem Zehra

Dramatic and lucid accounts of six monumental breakthroughs in physics—Newton's Universal Laws of motion and gravitation, Electromagnetism, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory . . . [read more]

Unreasonable Doubt

Norma Thompson

Retail: $16.95 / Sale: $12.95

"Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical . . . [read more]

The Logos of Heraclitus

Eva Brann

In his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His Heraclitus, however, is a lone thinker st . . . [read more]