BASIC BOOKS/CIVITAS
Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (June, $25) by Darryl Pinckney. The African-American novelist analyzes the works of J.A. Rogers, Vincent O. Carter and Caryl Phillips. Advertising.
CATBIRD PRESS
Karel Capek--Life and Work (July, $23) by Ivan Klíma, trans. by Norma Comrada, examines the life and output of the Czech novelist and playwright.
CITADEL PRESS
The Muse in the Bottle: Great Writers on the Joy of Drinking (July, $15.95) by Charles Coulombe collects writings in praise of booze from early times to the present.
CORNELL UNIV. PRESS
Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (June, $35) by Constance Brown Kuriyama positions the towering playwright in the context of Elizabethan society.
IVAN R. DEE
The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology (Apr., $24.95) by Primo Levi, trans. by Peter Forbes, is a writer's collection of the work of others that made a difference in his life.
Complete Essays, Vol. 5 1938-1956 (June, $35) by Aldous Huxley, edited by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton is the second to the last volume in the literary series.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (Apr., $30) by Seamus Heaney probes the relationship of Heaney to his own voice via selections from three previous collections, plus lectures, newspaper articles and radio commentaries.
The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors (Apr., $22) by Ian Frazier observes fishing, fish and the aquatic world.
Letters to a Young Novelist (June, $16) by Mario Vargas Llosa is a manual for aspiring writers that stresses disciplined observation.
American Studies (Aug., $25) by Louis Menand is a critical journey through cultural history delving into such topics as the connection between Larry Flynt's Hustler and Jerry Falwell's evangelism. Author tour.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On (Apr., $23) by Frank Conroy gathers the author's journalistic pieces that reveal his passions. Advertising. Author tour.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
The History of Southern Women's Literature (June, $49.95), edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks, mines this wealthy tradition. Advertising.
LYONS PRESS
In the Shadows of the Morning: Essays (Aug., $24.95) by Philip Caputo conveys the Pulitzer Prize-winner's passion for travel and adventure.
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS COLLECTIONS
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (May, $24.95) by Mary McCarthy, edited by A.O. Scott, gathers some of the contrarian critic's literary, social and political essays.
PENN STATE UNIV. PRESS
The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (Apr., $55) by David Finkelstein delves into the successes and failures of the publisher of such authors as George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, E.M. Forster and Joseph Conrad.
UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
Women in a Man's World, Crying (Aug., $29.95) by Vicki Covington assembles the novelist's autobiographical essays. Advertising. Author tour.
UNIV. OF ARIZONA PRESS
Octavio Paz: A Meditation (Mar., $19.95) by Ilan Stavans, the cultural critic, reflects upon Paz's intellectual courage and the place of criticism in society.
UNIV. OF HERTFORDSHIRE PRESS
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Visual Shakespeare: Essays in Film and Television (Apr., $59.95) by Graham Holderness looks at the Bard's role in the media.
UNIV. OF MISSOURI PRESS
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol. 9: Essays on Art, Race, Politics and World Affairs (Apr., $49.95), edited by Christopher C. De Santis, is a far-reaching collection.
UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Letters to J.D. Salinger (Apr., $24.95), edited by Chris Kubica and Will Hochman. Various individuals, from teenagers to famous writers, tell Salinger their opinion of him.
UNIV. PRESS OF FLORIDA
The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (Mar., $24.95), edited by Jack E. Davis, is social commentary written by a journalist for the Miami Herald during the 1920s.
WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOKS
Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall Street Journal's "Middle Column" (May, $24), edited by Ken Wells, gathers entertaining features from the past 60 years. Advertising.
