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"The Pushcart Prize series is the best of its kind."—Kirkus Reviews

The Pushcart Prize XXXII 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—including Joyce Carol Oates, Rosellen Brown, Rick Bass, Carolyn Kizer, Edward Hoagsland, Rita Dove, and Naomi Shihab Nye—this volume celebrates over sixty stories, essays, and poems from dozens of little magazines and small presses.

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 The Pushcart Prize has increased from strength to strength as the small presses expand in influence and energy..
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The pushcarts have declared war!  New York City's streets are clogged with huge, rude trucks that park where they want, hold up traffic, and bulldoze into anything that is in their way, and the pushcart peddlers are determined to get rid of them. But the trucks are just as determined to get rid of the pushcarts, and chaos results in the city.



The pushcarts have come up with a brilliant strategy that will surely let the hot air out of their enemies.  The secret weapon--a peashooter armed with a pin; the target--the vulnerable truck tires.  Once the source of the flat tires is discovered, the children of the city joyfully join in with their own pin peashooters.  The pushcarts have won one battle, but can they win the war against a corrupt mayor who taxes the pins and prohibits the sale of dried peas?.
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The most honored literary series in America begins its fourth decade.

With a brilliant collection of stories, essays, memoirs, and poems selected from hundreds of the best small presses, the annual Pushcart Prize sets the standard of excellence for literary anthologies. Each year it invites nominations from a wide array of little magazines and small presses and presents over sixty of the best; and each year its annual volume is hailed as a touchstone of literary discovery.

For its thirty-first anniversary celebration, the Pushcart Prize surpasses its own reputation with an astonishing diversity of writers—some renowned and many others destined for fame..
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"Intelligence, compassion and artistry are alive and well in America "—Donna Seaman, Booklist

The winner of honors from the National Book Critics Circle, Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, and others, and acclaimed by readers and reviewers nationwide, the Pushcart Prize series continues to be a testament to the flourishing of American fiction, essays, memoirs, and poetry in our small presses..
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Three highly acclaimed volumes are gathered together for the first time with many new nasty reviews and ridiculous rejections of great authors and classic books, including Melville's "Moby Dick" ("tragic-comic bubble and squeak") and John Le Carre's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" ("You're welcome to Le Carre--he hasn't got any future".) Illustrations ..
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"[Henderson] has made it his mission over the last thirty-odd years to defy the dumbing down of literature and the culture at large."—Kirkus Reviews

This edition of the long-honored anthology of small-press fiction, essays, and poetry marks its third decade, an amazing feat of survival and excellence.

Like previous editions, The Pushcart Prize XXX presents over sixty selections picked from hundreds of little magazines and presses with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. In the Pushcart tradition, this fascinating collection combines the work of today's luminaries with a host of new talents, creating an exciting assembly of diverse voices.

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 writers received their first recognition in The Pushcart Prize, which over the years has tracked small-press enthusiasms from traditional to experimental in an unsurpassed eclectic gathering..
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This monumental collection celebrates the best short story fiction published in the Pushcart Prize editions from over the past three decades

Forty-five stories were selected from over one thousand. As Booklist commented when the hardcover edition was published: "This peerless collection features past winners of the Pushcart Prize, the prestigious award that honors fiction published by independent publishing houses. Indeed, the table of contents read like a who's who of contemporary fiction with such authors as Tobias Wolfe, Cynthia Ozick, Andre Dubus, Edward P. Jones, Patricia Hampl, Ha Jin, and dozens more. Each of these stories represents an author working at the peak of his or her craft."

The Pushcart Prize series has consistently tracked the development of contemporary writing throughout much of recent literary history from the traditional to the experimental. All of these riches are collected in this unsurpassed eclectic gathering..
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From the very start in 1976, the editors of The Pushcart Prize recognized and celebrated the essay, and over the years the series has witnessed the development of many forms of the genre, including a strong renaissance in the personal essay. This monumental collection selects opinions and reflections on much of the social, literary, and political history of recent decades, by authors including Andre Dubus, Thomas Lynch, Charles Simic, Frederick Busch, Louise Erdrich, Charles Baxter, Vicki Hearne, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Lopate, Donald Barthelme, Seamus Heaney, William Kitteredge, Franklin Burroughs, Naomi Shihab Nye, and many more..
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"Writers," says James Charlton in the preface to his Writer's Quotation Book, "love quotations. They love quoting someone else's work almost as much as they love quoting their own." What started as a 16-page giveaway in 1979 has been revised and expanded considerably (the book is now divided into over 60 sections) and is now in its fourth edition. Like its many contributors, Charlton's compendium is at turns wise, wry, sincere, and self-deprecating. The effect is that of an expansive club, whose members understand the writer's blank stares out the window, the mocking taunt of a stack of white paper, the rejection dejection, and the glee that comes with first holding in one's hands a book with one's name on it. "You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer," says Margaret Atwood here, "an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river." --Jane Steinberg.
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