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Book Synopsis The Pushcart Prize (2022) XLVI by : Bill Henderson
Download or read book The Pushcart Prize (2022) XLVI written by Bill Henderson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 46th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished staff contributing editors. Series Honors: The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Pushcart its 2020 recognition for “Distinguished Service to the Arts.” The National Book Critics Circle cited Bill Henderson for its Ivan Sandrof “Lifetime Achievement” award in 2006. In 2005 Poets &Writers / Barnes and Noble noted Pushcart for their Writers For Writers prize. And in 1978 Publishers Weekly’s Carey-Thomas Award went to the Pushcart Prize. Reviews of last year’s edition: Booklist - “Resplendent…A perennial must have.” Publishers Weekly - “A trove of fine writing.” Kirkus - ”Strong and wide ranging." Library Journal (starred) - "Fascinating ….A must have for all collections."
Book Synopsis The Pushcart Prize (2022) XLVI by : Bill Henderson
Download or read book The Pushcart Prize (2022) XLVI written by Bill Henderson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 46th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished staff contributing editors. Series Honors: The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Pushcart its 2020 recognition for “Distinguished Service to the Arts.” The National Book Critics Circle cited Bill Henderson for its Ivan Sandrof “Lifetime Achievement” award in 2006. In 2005 Poets &Writers / Barnes and Noble noted Pushcart for their Writers For Writers prize. And in 1978 Publishers Weekly’s Carey-Thomas Award went to the Pushcart Prize. Reviews of last year’s edition: Booklist - “Resplendent…A perennial must have.” Publishers Weekly - “A trove of fine writing.” Kirkus - ”Strong and wide ranging." Library Journal (starred) - "Fascinating ….A must have for all collections."
Book Synopsis Pushcart Prize XLV by : Bill Henderson
Download or read book Pushcart Prize XLV written by Bill Henderson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 45th edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Pushcart Prize XLV is continuing evidence that much of today’s vibrant writing appears only in small journals and book presses.The series has been selected for Publishers Weekly Carey Thomas Award, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof citation, and the Poets and Writers/Barnes and Noble “Writers For Writers” award among others.Here are 70 authors from more than 50 presses as selected from the nominations of 220 distinguished Contributing Editors and 800 participating presses.Recent reviews include: “Essential.” Library Journal“Must reading” Kirkus Reviews“Distinguished.” New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis The Pushcart Prize XLVII by : Bill Henderson
Download or read book The Pushcart Prize XLVII written by Bill Henderson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of High Honors from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pushcart Prize XLVII includes over 60 stories, poems and essays from dozens of small literary presses . In last year’s Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, “the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe.” As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and hundreds of Contributing Editors. The list of authors selected and encouraged over the decades, is immense. (An index to previous volumes is included in each edition.) The Pushcart Prize won the NBCC Sandroff Lifetime Achievement award, The Poets & Writers/ Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers citation and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the seminal publications in American publishing history.
Book Synopsis Pushcart Book of Short Stories by : Bill Henderson
Download or read book Pushcart Book of Short Stories written by Bill Henderson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best short stories as selected from the first quarter-century of the celebrated The Pushcart Prize series. Since 1976, The Pushcart Prize has been "the single best measure of the state of affairs in American literature today," according to the New York Times Book Review. Many of today's celebrated short story authors received their first national recognition in the Pushcart Prize; over the years the series has tracked the development of the form, encompassing all its enthusiasms from traditional to experimental in an unsurpassed eclectic gathering. Over 500 stories from all the editions were considered for this memorable and enduring volume, and the final selections include some of the major writers of our time, almost all of them discovered in The Pushcart Prize at the start of their vocations. The list includes Raymond Carver, John Irving, David Kranes, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jayne Anne Phillips, Cynthia Ozick, Janet Peery, Liza Wieland, Susan Minot, Mona Simpson, Tim O'Brien, Rick Bass, Richard Ford, Alistair MacLeod, Padgett Powell, Josip Novakovich, Ha Jin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Rick Moody, and many more.
Book Synopsis Disasters in the First World by : Olivia Clare
Download or read book Disasters in the First World written by Olivia Clare and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Olivia Clare is pure literary dynamite . . . [She] writes with Carveresque clarity and bite and an elegance all her own. A bravura debut.” —Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of White Oleander Olivia Clare’s delightfully strange and tender debut collection traces the impact of larger-than-life forces on everyday people. From siblings whose relationship is as fragile as glass, to a woman grappling with both an emotional and physical drought, to a superstitious spouse fearful of misfortune, Disasters in the First World explores the real and the imagined, environmental and man-made calamities, and the human need to comprehend the unknown. “These insightful stories . . . flout convention and work in mysterious ways. Two in particular—‘Pétur’ and ‘The Visigoths’—will probably be anthologized and taught and cherished for years to come. They’re so well crafted . . . [they] flicker with moments of rare insight and nuance . . . makes me want to pick up whatever Clare publishes next.” —Andrew Ervin, The New York Times Book Review “Lyrical and elegiac . . . Clare’s writing sparkles with unexpected word choice . . . Her stories unfold in wonderfully astonishing turns . . . Tender yet occasionally biting, Disasters in the First World ekes narrative poetry out of tragedy . . . Clare writes compassionately and unflinchingly about mental suffering.” —Shelf Awareness “Olivia Clare’s debut collection will surprise you with its poetic weirdness, its dark confidence. The ‘disasters’ in these stories are tragically indefinite, fissures in the lives of the characters, whom Clare brings to life with humor, wisdom, and brutal honesty.” —Vu Tran, author of Dragonfish
Book Synopsis Faulty Predictions by : Karin Lin-Greenberg
Download or read book Faulty Predictions written by Karin Lin-Greenberg and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking place in locales as diverse as small-town Ohio, the mountains of western North Carolina, and the plains of Kansas, Lin-Greenberg's stories provide insight into the human condition over a cross section of age and culture. Although the characters are often faced with challenges, the stories capture moments of optimism and hope.
Download or read book Best Debut Short Stories 2021 written by and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual—and essential—collection of the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote. Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen answers to these questions. The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding debuts in literary magazines in the previous year. They are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, themselves innovators of the short story form: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote. Each piece comes with an introduction by its original editors, whose commentaries provide valuable insight into what magazines are looking for in their submissions, and showcase the vital work they do to nurture literature's newest voices.
Book Synopsis The Pushcart Prize XLIII by : Bill Henderson
Download or read book The Pushcart Prize XLIII written by Bill Henderson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More good poems, essays and stories are found in these presses than any other place on the planet.” Richard Ford This 43rd edition of the annual Pushcart Prize – the most celebrated literary series in America – is further proof that these days the heat and heart of contemporary writing is often found in small presses scattered around the country and the world, far from the pressures of commercial centers. As the variety of selections in PUSHCART PRIZE XLIII indicates, it is a diverse community constantly infused by new stories, essays and poetry from small press authors with a vision of what is honest and vital. Over 70 authors are included from more than 50 presses.Winner of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Poets & Writers/Barnes & Nobel Writers For Writers recognition, and named with Pushcart Press as one of the most influential publications in the development of America publishing over the past century by Publishers Weekly, the Pushcart Prize presents over 600 pages of literary brilliance from both new and established authors.
Download or read book The Outer Cape written by Patrick Dacey and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Centered around a family's weekend in their summer cottage on the Northeast cape, [this novel] explores four lives in crisis and reflects back at us what the American family is becoming"--
Book Synopsis Virtue, Big as Sin - Poems by : Frank Osen
Download or read book Virtue, Big as Sin - Poems written by Frank Osen and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue, Big as Sin is impressively wide-ranging in theme and style. It illuminates everyday vignettes with solicitous spotlights such as the bereaved son sorting the contents of his father’s medicine cabinet, or the father whose son’s driver’s education recalls the time his own “unharnessed” Mustang went “bungeeing” around a bend; it celebrates the artist’s creative highs, or reflects on the misfortunate who is forever nearing the threshold of achievement, aware that life may prove a “most inept librettist” and should thus be paired with our “strongest song.” Osen’s dexterity with both formal and free verse is apparent. His wit and humor prevent the serious from becoming ponderous while his intelligent insight lends depth to the lighthearted. Reading and rereading this outstanding debut collection, it is easy to see why—from the first poem to the last—it is a worthy winner of the 2012 Able Muse Book Award. PRAISE FOR VIRTUE, BIG AS SIN: Frank Osen’s Virtue, Big as Sin offers one witty, elegant poem after another. The rhymes are especially clever, the meter sure, the stanzas well-shaped, but this poet’s sense of proportion is also reflected in wisdom (and what is wisdom but a sense of proportion?). An urbane maker of sparkling phrases like “that genuine Ur of the ersatz,” Osen can also write plainly, movingly, about a young girl’s funeral. And he reflects often on art itself, which he so rightly calls “the conjured awe.” —Mary Jo Salter (Judge, 2012 Able Muse Book Award) In his talent for tragedy and comedy, and for mixing them, Osen takes his place in a distinguished line of English-language poets that runs from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our day. —Timothy Steele (from the afterword) Reading Virtue, Big as Sin has left me with the sense of satisfaction and enduring pleasure that really good poetry always produces, even when it also does the rest of what honest writing may do: confirm suspicions about ourselves we wish we could refute, bring to mind aspects of nature we’d rather forget, and deliver alarming news about the future, both public and private. Frank Osen does all of this and much more, all with grace and wit, in language that makes the messenger thoroughly “one of us.” —Rhina P. Espaillat Frank Osen’s poems revel in beauty and pleasure, in technical dexterity and high-gloss finish. Readers who care about such things will be abundantly rewarded. But the reveling is haunted by loss, awful possibilities of failure, a nothingness glimpsed beneath the carnival. One of Osen’s avowed tutelary spirits is Wallace Stevens, and his probing of his subjects can often seem like an extended, heart-wrenching commentary on Stevens’s line, “Death is the mother of Beauty.” The fragility of beauty, the omnipresence of death, and the intimate connections between them, are everywhere present in these marvelously heartening and effective poems. —Dick Davis
Download or read book Open Zero written by Sophia Naz and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sophia Naz's poems, one has the sense of being out in the open-of our beings fermenting as we read, of looking back from time to time, to check whether we are alone. We are never alone-there are the ancestors, both Naz's intellectual predecessors and ours. And there are the poems, always quivering, gently "skyclad".' -Sumana Roy 'These new poems by Sophia Naz are marked by deep music, the strong beating of a battered but indomitable heart, the percussion of a tidal bore of meticulously crafted emotion. This is an apostrophe to loss marked by the optimism inherent in poetry, for Naz's passion for language goes way deeper than the anagrams and play of post-modernism, drawing the reader into a new territory of passionate rediscovery and retrieval.' -Jerry Pinto
Book Synopsis Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories by : Edward Hamlin
Download or read book Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories written by Edward Hamlin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories spans the globe, taking us from Belfast to Brazil, Morocco to Manhattan. The teenaged daughter of an IRA assassin flees Northern Ireland only to end up in Baby Doc’s terrifying Haiti. An American woman who’s betrayed her brother only to lose him to a Taliban bullet comes face to face with her demons during a vacation in Morocco. A famed photojournalist must find a way to bring her life’s work to closure before she goes blind, a quest that changes her understanding of the very physics of light. By turns innocent and canny, the characters of Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories must learn to improvise—quickly—when confronted with stark choices they never dreamed they’d have to make. Lyrical, immaculately constructed and deeply felt, these nine stories take us far beyond our comfort zones and deep into the wilds of the human heart.
Book Synopsis Here Lies by : Olivia Clare Friedman
Download or read book Here Lies written by Olivia Clare Friedman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from the “Munro-esque” (Houston Post) author of Disasters in the First World, Here Lies is Olivia Clare Friedman’s visceral and portentous look at mourning, memory, and motherhood in an alternate Louisiana ravaged by climate change. Louisiana, 2042. Spurred by the effects of climate change, states have closed graveyards and banned burials, making cremation mandatory and the ashes of loved ones state-owned unless otherwise claimed. In the small town of St. Genevieve, Alma lives alone and struggles to grieve in the wake of her young mother Naomi’s death, during which Alma failed to honor Naomi’s final wishes. Now, Alma decides to fight to reclaim Naomi’s ashes, a journey of unburial that will bring into her life a mysterious and fiercely loyal stranger, Bordelon, who appears in St. Genevieve after a storm, as well as a group of strong, rebellious local women who, together, teach Alma anew the meaning of family and strength. With poignance, poeticism, and deep insight in Here Lies, Olivia Clare Friedman gives us a stunning portrait of motherhood, friendship, and humanity in an alternate American South torn asunder by global warming. This is a stunning first novel from a unique and inventive writer.
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Stories 2020 by : Curtis Sittenfeld
Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2020 written by Curtis Sittenfeld and published by Best American Series (R). This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.
Book Synopsis The Best American Essays 2021 by : Robert Atwan
Download or read book The Best American Essays 2021 written by Robert Atwan and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz "The world is abundant even in bad times,"guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness."The essays Schulz selected are a powerful time capsule of 2020, showcasing that even if our lives as we knew them stopped, the beauty to be found in them flourished. From an intimate account of nursing a loved one in the early days of the pandemic, to a masterful portrait of grieving the loss of a husband as the country grieved the loss of George Floyd, this collection brilliantly shapes the grief, hardship, and hope of a singular year. The Best American Essays 2021 includes ELIZABETH ALEXANDER - HILTON ALS - GABRIELLE HAMILTON - RUCHIR JOSHI - PATRICIA LOCKWOOD- CLAIRE MESSUD - WESLEY MORRIS - BETH NGUYEN - JESMYN WARD and others
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Stories 2021 by : Jesmyn Ward
Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2021 written by Jesmyn Ward and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you"forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew. The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes GABRIEL BUMP - BRANDON HOBSON - DAVID MEANS- JANE PEK - TRACEY ROSE PEYTON - GEORGE SAUNDERS - BRYAN WASHINGTON - KEVIN WILSON - C PAM ZHANG and others
