Pushcart Prize 2001 Best of the Small Presses

The quarter-century edition of a "distinguished annual literary event" (Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review ) For its twenty-fifth 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 "[A]mong the most influential [series] in the development of the American book business in the past century and a quarter."'” Publishers Weekly " 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 )Henderson, Bill is the author of 'Pushcart Prize 2001 Best of the Small Presses', published 2001 under ISBN 9781888889277 and ISBN 1888889276.