The Pushcart Prize XXIV: The Best of the Small Presses, 2000 Edition (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, 24) - Softcover

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9781888889215: The Pushcart Prize XXIV: The Best of the Small Presses, 2000 Edition (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, 24)

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Publisher: Pushcart Press, 2000

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For the year 2000 edition, The Pushcart Prize series presents one of the largest volumes in its history―over sixty short stories, poems, and essays selected from hundreds of small presses and literary journals with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors.

In the best Pushcart tradition, this fascinating edition combines the work of today's luminaries with a host of new talents, creating a wholly original amalgam of diverse voices. The most honored literary series in America, The Pushcart Prize has been chosen for many Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club selections, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, and hailed with Pushcart Press by Publishers Weekly as "among the most influential in the development of the American book business over the past 125 years

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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.”

Review:

The Pushcart Prize is a new literary ingredient; and a revolution; and a great ear; and a voice braiding many voices. -- Cynthia Ozick

A distinguished annual literary event. -- Anne Tyler, New York Times

A fascinating compilation. -- Publishers Weekly starred review

The best read annual that is published--read and not merely sold and collected on a shelf. -- Russell Banks

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