AMADEUS PRESS
The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer (June, $27.95) by Thomas May presents interviews with the composer along with essays by Alan Rich, Ingram Marshall et al.
APPLAUSE
The Best American Short Plays 2003—2004 (June; $32, paper $16.95), edited by Glenn Young, features 14 works by such noted playwrights as John Guare, Craig Lucas and Tina Howe.
BASIC CIVITAS BOOKS
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz (June, $26) by Stanley Crouch collects essays on music and performers by the jazz critic.
BULFINCH
In Character: Actors Acting (Apr., $50), foreword by Roger Ebert, photos by Howard Schatz, pairs photographs of well-known actors with their comments on their craft.
CONTINUUM
The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (May, $40) by Michael Gray details Dylan's life and career. Author tour.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE
I Was There When It Happened: My Life with Johnny Cash (May, $24.95) by Marshall Grant tells of the author's life with Cash as his longtime bassist and manager. Ad/promo. Author tour
DA CAPO PRESS
Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll (May, $26) by Rick Coleman. This biography challenges popular myths about rock history.
DUKE UNIV. PRESS
Work Songs (Apr., $27.95) and Healing Songs (Apr., $24.95) by Ted Gioia cover the history and purposes of these songs.
FABER FABER
Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Life in L.A.'s Legendary Rock-and-Roll Neighborhood (May, $24) by Michael Walker remembers the place where musicians gathered to create landmark hits. Ad/promo.
GOTHAM BOOKS
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (Mar., $26) by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey features never-before-told stories from the Fab Four's recording engineer.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944—1961 (Mar., $35), edited by Tony Kushner, includes All My Sons, Death of a Salesmanand The Crucible. $25,000 ad/promo.
American Movie Critics: From the Silents Until Now (Mar., $40), edited by Phillip Lopate, profiles two art forms: movies and movie reviews.
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS CLASSICS
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (July, $24.95), trans. and intro. by Anne Carson, features Alkestis, Hekuba, Heraklesand Hippolitos.
OTHER PRESS
The Impulse to Preserve: Reflections of a Filmmaker (June, $55) by Robert Gardner covers the life and work of the nonfiction filmmaker in text and images.
ROUTLEDGE
America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley (Apr., $29.95) by Philip Furia and Michael Lasser tells of these songs' creation and examines what makes them great.
TALLFELLOW PRESS
Doing It for Money: The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood (Apr., $24.95), edited by Daryl G. Nickens, offers behind-the-scenes tips from top film and TV writers.
TEMPLE UNIV. PRESS
Philadelphia Maestros: Ormandy, Muti, Sawallisch (Mar., $22) by Phyllis White Rodriguez-Peralta celebrates the Philadelphia Orchestra under the batons of three conductors.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIV. PRESS
Renegades, Showmen, & Angels: A Theatrical History of Fort Worth, 1873—2001 (June, $35) by Jan L. Jones traces the history of live theater in the Texas city.
UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS
Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (June, $35) by John Gennari follows the history of jazz critics from the 1920s to the present.
UNIV. OF ROCHESTER PRESS
The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams (Apr., $39.95) by Steven Schick. A leading practitioner presents an account of the percussionist's world from the 1930s on.
UNIV. OF TEXAS PRESS
Meet Me with Your Black Drawers on: My Life in Music (Mar., $24.95) by Jeannie Cheatham. A jazz and blues legend tells all.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
Michael Moore'sFahrenheit 9/11:How One Film Divided a Nation (Apr., $24.95) by Robert Brent Toplin critiques the controversial documentary.
UNIV. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
New York Voices: Fourteen Portraits (Mar., $25) by Whitney Balliett. The jazz critic looks at entertainment figures who define New York's arts scene.
WATSON-GUPTILL/BILLBOARD BOOKS
The Art of Ray Harryhausen (Apr., $50) by Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton, foreword by Peter Jackson, scrutinizes the work of the master of stop-motion animation.
WELCOME BOOKS
Cinema by the Bay (May, $39.95) by Sheerly Avni celebrates San Francisco—area movie studios and their films. $25,000 ad/promo.
