DAVID R. GODINE
Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer (Apr., $24.95) by Noel Perrin, selected by Terry S. Osborne, shares the personal and environmental essays of the late Dartmouth professor turned Vermont farmer.
GRAYWOLF
Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (June, $17) by Lewis Buzbee explores bookselling from the ancient Egyptians to the author's own contemporary experience. Author tour.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
The Din in the Head: Essays (June, $24) by Cynthia Ozick. The winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award discusses Bellow, Plath, Sontag, Tolstoy and more. Ad/promo. Author tour.
MERCER UNIV. PRESS
The Place Setting: Timeless Tastes of the Mountain South, from Bright Hope to Frog Level (Mar., $25) by Fred W. Sauceman samples sorghum syrup, chow-chow, pimento cheese, dumplings and more of the region's specialties.
OHIO UNIV. PRESS/SWALLOW PRESS
Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America (May, $42.95) by Susan Clair Imbaraato sets its sights on early American writing by women.
SEAGULL BOOKS (dist. by Palgrave Macmillan)
Conversations with Edward Said (Apr., $19.95) by Edward Said and Tariq Ali records an interview with Said, a noted 20th-century intellectual.
SHOEMAKER HOARD
Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays (Apr., $26) by Frederick Crews asks if we can reach for deep wisdom without wondering, "Am I deceiving myself here?"
STATE UNIV. OF NEW YORK PRESS
André Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist's Occupation (Apr., $65) by Jocelyn Van Tuyl studies Gide's neglected wartime writings.
UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans (June, $50) by Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes works by first-generation Puritans in theological, rhetorical and political terms.
UNIV. OF TENNESSEE PRESS
Reading Faulkner: Introductions to the First Thirteen Novels (May, $35) by Richard Marius. Nancy Grisham Anderson collects Harvard professor Marius's lectures on the novels' hidden themes, social history and insights.
WRITERS DIGEST BOOKS (dist. by F+W)
Rules of Thumb: 71 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations (Mar., $19.95) by Michael Martone and Susan Neville includes insights from John Barth, Melanie Rae Thon, Rick Moody and more. Ad/promo.
