ALYSON (dist. by Consortium)

Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco (May, $16.95), edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Jim Van Buskirk, gathers essays and stories on the City by the Bay's appeal.

BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS (dist. by Consortium)

Awkward: A Detour (June, $16.95) by Mary Cappello describes a common, much maligned state of being.

DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS

Energy of Delusion (June, $14.95) by Viktor Shklovsky, trans. by Shushan Avagyan, studies Tolstoy's life and work in explaining how not to approach literature.

GRAYWOLF

Findings: Essays on the Natural and Unnatural World (Apr., $15) by Kathleen Jamie shares her observations—seen from her kitchen window, on the streets of Edinburgh, in hospital corridors and elsewhere. Author tour.

TALONBOOKS (dist. by Northwestern Univ. Press)

Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry/Anarchy/Abstraction (Mar., $24.95) by Stephen Collis celebrates the Canadian poet and critic.

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIV. PRESS

Literary Austin (Apr.; $17.95, cloth $29.50), edited by Don Graham, collects fiction, essays and other writings on the history and character of the Texas capital.

UNIV. OF GEORGIA PRESS

Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, the Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa of Avila and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation (Mar., $19.95) by David Kirby collects a broad range of new essays by the poet, critic and English professor.

UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS

Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers' Colonies, 1917—1950 (Mar., $18.95) by Lynn Cline focuses on the group of writers that flourished in the '20s and '30s.

VINTAGE

Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups and What Women Really Think of Contemporary Weddings (May, $12.95), edited by Colleen Curran, brings together real-life stories on what weddings mean. Author tour.