CARROLL & GRAF
Moving Targets: Essay, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983—2005 (Apr., $26) by Margaret Atwood. The author's first nonfiction collection in more than 20 years includes 150 topics from John Updike and Toni Morrison to the "grunge look."
CONTINUUM
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Apr., $25) by Christopher Booker examines the stories that underlie literature and the plots that have been basic through the ages.
DOUBLEDAY
The Disappointment Artist (Mar., $22.95) by Jonathan Lethem offers views into the collisions of art, landscape and personal history.
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women Tell Their True Stories Behind Their Blowups, Burnouts, and Slow Fades (May, $24.95), edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell, addresses the experience of losing a friendship with contributions from Francine Prose, Dorothy Allison and Ann Hood.
FORGE
The Jack Ryan Agenda (May, $23.95) by William Terdoslavich examines Tom Clancy's canon in relationship to the politics and policies of the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations. Advertising.
GIBBS SMITH
The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller (Mar., $24.95) by Betsy Burton describes the life of an "indie" bookseller, complete with the trials and triumphs of author visits, censorship and megastores.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
Dictionary Days (Apr., $17) by Ilan Stavans offers a tour of language inspired by the author's lifelong obsession with dictionaries. Advertising. Author tour.
GROVE PRESS
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (Apr., $22) by Robert Olen Butler. The Pulitzer Prize winner teaches the tools of the craft.
HARPERCOLLINS
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views (Mar., $24.95) by Joyce Carol Oates collects essays, reviews and criticism on an array of books and writers, including Emily Brontë and Don DeLillo.
NEW DIRECTIONS
If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents (Apr., $21.95) by Gregory Rabassa. One of America's most acclaimed translators delivers a memoir and meditation on the art of translation.
W.W. NORTON
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (Aug., $39.95) by Harriett Beecher Stowe, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins, redefines this American novel. 7-city author tour.
PANTHEON
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems (Mar., $20) by Camille Paglia. The intellectual renegade gives a master class in how to read, understand and love poetry. Advertising. 8-city author tour.
POPULAR PRESS (dist. by Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Dissecting Stephen King: From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism (Apr., $45) by Heidi Strengell shows how King enriches his work by drawing on and stretching the limits of gothic tradition, myths and fairy tales.
REGANBOOKS
Players (Mar., $24.95) by Bert Fields explores the possibilities for the true identity of William Shakespeare.
UNIV. OF ARKANSAS PRESS
Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America (Mar., $24.95) by Kathleen Rooney looks at the phenomenon. Advertising.
UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Making of Ezra Pound (June, $34.95) by Gregory Barnhisel shows how an independent publisher shaped Pound's career and reputation.
UNIV. OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
Writers and Personality (June, $24. 95) by Louis Auchincloss focuses on several of the author's favorite writers, considering the link between personality and the fiction that is created.
ZONE BOOKS
Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (May, $28) by Daniel Heller-Roazen is a philosophical and literary exploration into the persistence and disappearance of speech among individuals and within speaking communities.
