Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda, who won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism at the Washington Post Book World, is the author of An Open Book, Bound to Please, and Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Michael Dirda

Books by Michael Dirda

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
Michael Dirda
Paperback, 2004
"For some time now, the best book critic in America has been Michael Dirda."—Michael M. Thomas, New York Observer
An Open Book: Chapters fom a Reader's Life
Michael Dirda
Paperback, 2004
"A love story, full of a passion for literature and marked by intellectual vigor."—Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
Michael Dirda
Paperback, 2007
"Michael Dirda may be as close to the ideal critic as we are likely to get."—Annie Proulx
Red Cavalry
Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Michael Dirda
Paperback, 2003
"Amazing not only as literature but as biography." —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
ABC of Reading
Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda
Paperback, 2011
Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Dirda
Paperback, 2008
Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.
ABC of Reading
Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda
E Book, 2013
Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda.
Red Cavalry
Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Michael Dirda
E Book, 2015
"Amazing not only as literature but as biography." —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times