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Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses
Edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors
Pushcart, 538 pages, $35
Three decades ago, Bill Henderson, who will receive the National Book Critics Circle Award for lifetime achievement this spring, established this annual anthology of the best short stories, prose and poems from a range of smaller publications. This edition, drawn from the likes of McSweeney’s and Paris Review, features famous writers like David Mamet and E.L. Doctorow, but the true excitement lies in discovering new authors who reflect the literary skew.
