Springing Forward: Literary Criticism & Essays

Edited by Dick Donahue, Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen and Oona Short -- Publishers Weekly, 1/23/2006

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.