Bill Henderson, Editor
with the Pushcart Prize Editors
The Pushcart Prize XXV
Best of the Small Presses, 2001 EditionThe quarter-century edition of "a distinguished annual literary event" (Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review)—the best stories, poems, and essays from our small presses.
For its 25th year, The Pushcart Prize surpasses itself with a stunning presentation of new and celebrated authors. Over sixty stories, essays, and poems appear in this landmark edition, picked from more than 5,000 nominations.
Over the years more than 400 presses have been honored with reprints in The Pushcart Prize, the most praised literary series in America: winner of the Carey-Thomas Award, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, picked for several Book-of-the-Month Club selections, and hailed by Publishers Weekly as "among the most influential in the development of the American book business in the past century and a quarter."
"The single best measure of the state of affairs in American literature today."—New York Times Book Review
"The Pushcart Prize is essential."—Library Journal
"Those who despair of finding good writing in mass media America need look no further than The Pushcart Prize."—Booklist
Bill Henderson is the author of The Kid That Could, a novel, and three memoirs, His Son, Her Father and Tower. He is the publisher and founder of The Pushcart Press and the editor of the acclaimed Pushcart Prize series. He lives on Long Island and in Maine.
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Also Available:
The Pushcart Book of Short Stories
The Pushcart Book of Essays
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