Hardcovers: Literary Criticism & Essays
Edited by Dick Donahue and Skip Skwarek. Compiled by Alia Akkam, Natalie Danford, Diane Patrick, Sarah Robbins, Judith Rosen and Michelle Wildgen. -- Publishers Weekly, 6/29/2009
AURUM PRESS
(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG
Sherlock Holmes: A Reader's Companion (Jan., $29.95) by Dan Smith showcases a range of Holmesian information.
DAVID R. GODINE
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric (Nov., $25.95) by Ward Farnsworth offers a practical aid to understanding the patterns in which people speak and write.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
A New Literary History of America (Sept., $49.95), edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, studies the country's scholarship and imagination through 200 essays, speeches and more.
OTHER PRESS
Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life (Sept., $22) by Michael Greenberg. Strangers and next-of-kin, literature and the streets of New York provoke startling insights.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS
The Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age (Sept., $25), edited by Victoria Zackheim. Twenty noted writers compare the person they expected to become to the person they are today.
READER'S DIGEST
Under the Covers and Between the Sheets (Oct., $14.95) by C. Alan Joyce and Sarah Janssen gathers little-known stories about several noted books and authors.
RIZZOLI
The Vertigo of Lists: An Illustrated Essay (Nov., $45) by Umberto Eco ponders Western culture's passion for accumulation and list-making.
UNIV. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (Feb., $38) by José Alaniz traces the evolution of Russian comics from Soviet bête noire to the post-perestroika art form.
