The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses 2010 Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888889543 ISBN 13: 9781888889543

Publisher: Pushcart Press, 2009

Synopsis

The most honored literary series in America marks its 34th year of continuous publication.

Reviewing the 2008 edition of The Pushcart Prize, Publishers Weekly called it “a must-have for contemporary literature lovers” (starred review). The Chicago Tribune has raved, “When it comes to contemporary American literature, the small press is where the action is . . . of all anthologies, Pushcart’s is the most rewarding to read straight through.”

In The Pushcart Prize XXXIV more than sixty selections of short stories, essays, and poetry have been picked from thousands of nominations by Pushcart Press staff, contributing editors, and hundreds of small presses. This year Rosanna Warren and Wesley McNair serve as poetry editors. The result is an introduction to a literary world that few readers have access to, where much of today’s important new writing is published, far from the commercial influence of the conglomerates.

The Pushcart Prize has been chosen for the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement recognition by the National Book Critics Circle and for numerous other awards.

About this title

About the Author

Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore – “the world’s smallest bookstore.”

More than 200 Contributing Editors and CO-Editors help select the annual volumes of The Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize Editors come from almost every state in the USA and around the world. Every year more than 8,000 nominations are received for the Pushcart Prize.

From Booklist

The Pushcart Prize collections provide an invaluable record of the most artistic facet of American letters, while editor Bill Henderson’s introductory essays, or what he calls his “annual sermon,” succinctly critique the ups and downs of the publishing world, which is taking its hits along with every other pillar of civilization in the current financial crisis. But Pushcart, a hands-on and sustainable endeavor (Henderson affectionately refers to it as a “funky little commune”), continues to support and celebrate the fruits of small presses and the so-called little literary magazines, considering more than 7,000 entries as they built this year’s brimming, vibrant anthology, the perfect introduction to new writers and adventurous new work by established writers. This particular gathering is extraordinary in its range of voices and subjects, and in the contributors’ passion for language, story, and hidden truths. Here are poets undaunted, including Sallie Tisdale and Paisley Rekdal; daring fiction writers such as Richard Powers and Brock Clarke; and deeply inquisitive essayists, among them Ginger Strand and Lia Purpura. Here is literature to have and to hold. --Donna Seaman

Edition details

• Publisher: Pushcart Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1888889543
• ISBN 13: 9781888889543
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: Henderson Bill