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Michael Dirda

BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS

  • Caring for your Books, 1990.
  • A Celebration of Writing (10 essay reviews reprinted in booklet form by The Washington Post, 1993)
  • Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainment, 2000.
  • An Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries (2002)
  • Looking for a Good Time: Reading, Libraries and the World of Books (Oberlin College Press, 2002 - printed lecture)
  • An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland, 2003. (Mostly about growing up in Lorain, this book was the Winner of the Ohioana Award for Non-Fiction in 2003.) Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education: Essays on Great Writers and Their Books, 2005.
  • Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (2006)
  • Classics for Pleasure (Fall, 2007)
  • On Conan Doyle, Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (2011)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • The Poetry of William Empson (Honors Thesis for Oberlin College, 1970)
  • On Beyle's Strand: A Study in Autobiography (Dissertation for Cornell University, 1977)
  • Annual contributor, "The Year in American Literature": to Collier's Encyclopedia Yearbook (1982-1998)
  • Afterword: Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne (Signet, 1984)
  • Annual contributor,  "The Year in American Poetry": The World Book Encyclopedia Yearbook (1990-1998)
  • "Libraries" in The Washington Post Guide to Washington (1990)
  • "The Continental Tradition in Horror and the Supernatural" in The Penguin Guide to Horror and the Supernatural, edited by Jack Sullivan (Penguin, 1986)
  • Lengthy scholarly articles on Balzac, Merimee, Maupassant and Jack Vance for Fantasy and Supernatural Fiction, (Scribner),  edited by E.F. Bleiler (1990)
  • Long scholarly articles on mystery writers John Dickson Carr and Edmund Crispin for Crime and Mystery Writers, edited by Robin W. Winks (1998)
  • "P.G. Wodehouse and the Critics" in Plum Lines (1999)
  • "On Looking over My Notes: Some Reflections on Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars" in The Baker Street Journal (Summer 2000)
  • Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainment (2001) - (Video-recording: Appearance by Michael Dirda at the Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., Feb. 18, 2001. Includes readings from his book Readings: essays and literary entertainment, and discussion of attending Oberlin College and his career as a journalist and author.)
  • Introduction to Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley (Dalkey Archive, 2001)
  • Introductory essay ("Realm of Wonders") to An Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries (Smithsonian, 2002)
  • Introduction to Red Cavalry, by Isaac Babel (Norton, 2002)
  • "Sweet Lorain," an essay included in A Certain Somewhere: Writers on The Places They Remember (2002)
  • "Dukedom Large Enough" (short story for All-Hallows, Journal of the Ghost Story Society, October, 2004)
  • The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, 2004. (Dirda was a member of the editorial board for this book.)
  • Introduction: The Collected Jorkens, Vol. 3, by Lord Dunsany (Night Shade Books, 2005)
  • Preface to The Horror of the Heights, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Facsimile edition/Calabash Press, 2004)
  • Preface to The Captain of the Pole-Star, and Other Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle (Ash-Tree Press, 2004)
  • Foreword, The Nibelungenlied, translated by Burton Raffel (Yale, 2006)
  • Foreword, Shakespeare’s Lives, by S. Schoenbaum (Barnes & Noble), 2006
  • Introduction: Diary of a Seducer, by Soren Kierkegaard (Continuum, 2006)
  • Introduction: The Manticore, by Robertson Davies (Penguin, 2006)
  • "Sweet Lorain," an essay included in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio (2007)
  • Introduction, Dante: Poet of the Secular World, by Erich Auerbach (New York Review Books, 2007)
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