Spring Hardcovers: Literary Criticism & Essays
Edited by Dick Donahue and Juan Martinez Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Lauren Joyce, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek and Julie Stevenson -- Publishers Weekly, 1/21/2008
Camden House
Günter Grass and His Critics: From The Tin Drum to Crabwalk (Mar., $90) by Siegfried Mews analyzes criticism of the controversial German author’s works.
Heyday Books
Where Light Takes Its Color from the Sea: A California Notebook (Apr., $21.95) by James D. Houston explores a writer’s keen appreciation of place.
Hodder Headline/John Murray
(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)
Tennis Whites and Teacakes (June, $32.95) by John Betjeman, edited by Stephen Games, collects poems, letters and journalism depicting Betjeman’s notion of what it means to be English.
Little, Brown
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need (June, $25.99) by David Sedaris assembles a new collection of essays.
Univ. Press of Mississippi
What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (Apr., $30) by Toni Morrison, edited by Carolyn C. Denard, analyzes 30 years of Morrison’s reflections.
