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  <title><![CDATA[Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 Edition (Pushcart Prize)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;&quot;The Pushcart Prize series is the best of its kind.&quot;&amp;#151;&lt;I&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;I&gt;The Pushcart Prize XXXII&lt;/I&gt; continues as a testament to the flourishing of American literature in our small presses. Edited with the assistance of more than two hundred distinguished contributing editors&amp;#151;including Joyce Carol Oates, Rosellen Brown, Rick Bass, Carolyn Kizer, Edward Hoagsland, Rita Dove, and Naomi Shihab Nye&amp;#151;this volume celebrates over sixty stories, essays, and poems from dozens of little magazines and small presses.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;It seems that the more commercial publishers consolidate the more small presses capture and encourage what is lasting and important in our literary culture. Each year &lt;I&gt;The Pushcart Prize&lt;/I&gt; has increased from strength to strength as the small presses expand in influence and energy.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection is filled with some wonderful stories, three or four great poems, and two amazingly written essays.  Between these though, there are a number of dinky little stories that are too pulpy or rambling to be very memorable and handfuls of fractured dreck little poems that reek of pretenti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20699084">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 05 21:02:07 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. Based off the stories that I have read from this collection, the Pushcart Prize truly is one of the most prestigious awards in the literary fiction circle.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Puschart collection in terms of the short-story material on offer, albeit with the exception of &quot;Cartegena&quot; by Nam Le and &quot;Sweethearts of the Rodeo&quot; by Lydia Peelle.  Much to go back to at another time, though.<br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 09 23:15:03 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read any of the other collections but this one is good.  I read ten stories and 3 were very good, 4 pretty good, and 3 were not so good.  The first story, Cartegenas, is almost worth buying the book for.   ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 24 07:05:24 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's uneven. Mostly gritty, in your face fiction. Plenty of poetry, which almost unreadable and sounds and looks like word puzzles.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong><em>The</em></strong> best anthology.  Hands down.  Even better than the Best American series.  I can't live without these.  ]]></body>
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