Yuvi Zalkow, the writer responsible for the previously posted clip about writing desk envy, is back with an irreverent trailer for his unpublished novel. Or is it a memoir?

In August Melville House Publishing will reprint five classic novellas, all with the same title. Watch this playful trailer for The Duel by Giacomo Casanova, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Heinrich von Kleist, and Aleksandr Kuprin, forthcoming from Melville House's Art of the Novella series.

Next month Three Rivers Press will publish Suzanne Morrison's memoir Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment. The book chronicles what happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating, twenty-five-year-old student decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga teacher training program.

In the latest installment of Picador's Big Ideas/Small Books series of paperbacks, poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum takes readers on a tour of humiliating circumstances in history, literature, art, current events, music, film, and his own life.

The Beginners, the debut novel by poet, Fence editor, and now novelist Rebecca Wolff, was published last month by Riverhead Books. The coming-of-age story of a girl in a New England town with a secret history is "as creepy as it is marvelous," according to Publishers Weekly.

In this book trailer for Carolyn Parkhurst's novel The Nobodies Album, recently published in paperback by Anchor Books, the author introduces The Carolyn Parkhurst Collection.

Nearly all of his forty-four published books were science fiction, but Philip K. Dick, who died in 1982, has influenced countless writers and filmmakers with sociological, political, and metaphysical themes that trenscend genre. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this fall, is the author's final work.

In one of the more disturbing book trailers released in recent months, director James Lees presents his vision of David Whitehouse's debut novel, Bed, forthcoming from Scribner in August. Described as "masterful" by Publishers Weekly, the novel tells the story of two brothers, one of whom refuses to leave his bed on his twenty-fifth birthday.

In a followup to last year's trailer for Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, Random House recently released this trailer, starring Paul Giamatti as the author's roommate, to coincide with this month's paperback release of the novel.

Next month Harper will publish Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, in which Carmela Ciuraru tells the stories of more than a dozen pseudonymous authors, including Mark Twain, Isak Dinesen, Lewis Carroll, and George Eliot, and explores the creative process and "the darker, often crippling aspects of fame."