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The Pushcart Prize XV: Best of the Small Presses
A collection of short stories, essays, and poems, culled from small presses and literary journals
592 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1991
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Bill Henderson
119 books19 followersBill Henderson (born April 5, 1941) is an American author, editor and publisher best known for his memoirs and the Pushcart Prize series.
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September 15, 2020
Out of novels temporarily, I decided to read some short story collections. I know what stories I really like -- mostly South American, or if American with something somewhat weird in them. I had this book of stories, poems and essays lying around, and started reading from the beginning. The Introduction by Russell Banks which is very conversationally opinionated about MBAs and various big publishers and then the small presses (which comprise a huge lot, all listed with addresses in the back. This book of course will be outdated for researching small presses.
It was really fun to read stories and poems that otherwise I might not have ever read. A great poem A Letter, by Albert Goldbarth, for example. My Mother and Mitch, by Clarence Major. I'm Having Trouble with my Relationship, by Leonard Michaels starts off with "The word 'RELATIONSHIP' appears for the first time in the 1743 edition of The Dunciad. Pope uses it in a way both funny and cruel to identify his enemy Cibber with the insane." Well, I loved that one, being a fool for vocabulary. Wally Lamb's story Astronauts, from The Missouri Review, which is a place I keep sending stories. The next was Joseph Geha's Through and Through about an adventure partly in Toledo, Ohio, where I grew up and I enjoyed it. All in all a good collection, and I'd heard of only about 1/5 of the authors. That's a good deal: learn some new stuff to read.
It was really fun to read stories and poems that otherwise I might not have ever read. A great poem A Letter, by Albert Goldbarth, for example. My Mother and Mitch, by Clarence Major. I'm Having Trouble with my Relationship, by Leonard Michaels starts off with "The word 'RELATIONSHIP' appears for the first time in the 1743 edition of The Dunciad. Pope uses it in a way both funny and cruel to identify his enemy Cibber with the insane." Well, I loved that one, being a fool for vocabulary. Wally Lamb's story Astronauts, from The Missouri Review, which is a place I keep sending stories. The next was Joseph Geha's Through and Through about an adventure partly in Toledo, Ohio, where I grew up and I enjoyed it. All in all a good collection, and I'd heard of only about 1/5 of the authors. That's a good deal: learn some new stuff to read.
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