TY - BOOK AU - Henderson,Bill ED - Pushcart Press. TI - Pushcart prize XXXVI, 2012: best of the small presses SN - 9781888889635 AV - PS501 .P87 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Wainscott, N. Y., New York, N.Y. PB - Pushcart Press, distributed by W.W. Norton KW - American literature KW - 21st century KW - Small presses KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and author index to the series since 1976; Phantoms / Steven Millhauser -- Station / Maria Hummel -- Mr. Lytle : An essay / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Horse latitudes / Kathleen Flenniken -- That winter / Miha Mazzini -- Laugh / Stephen Dobyns -- Brief lives / Paul Zimmer -- Song / John Murillo -- Nephilim / L. Annette Binder -- Ode to late middle age / Richard Cecil -- Three bartlett pears / Alice Mattison -- Man on the dump / Donald Platt -- Cowboys / Susan Steinberg -- December, fever / Joy Katz -- Hosts / Susanne Antonetta -- Black people can't swim / Douglas Goetsch -- We don't deserve this / Sandra Leong -- Logophilia / B.H. Fairchild -- Tracing back / Alice Friman -- Rockaway / Lydia Conklin -- Mending wall / Janice N. Harrington -- Soldier of fortune / Bret Anthony Johnston -- Orphanage / Elaine Terranova -- Our daily toast / Brenda Miller -- Roll out the fool / William Trowbridge -- Final concert / Eve Becker -- After 11 a.m. bombardment / Ilya Kaminsky -- How to fall in love properly / Julian Gough -- Watching my mother take her last breath / Leon Stokesbury -- The lobster mafia story / Anna Solomon -- A Tibetan man in Hawley, Massachusetts / Pamela Stewart -- From house of prayer no. 2 / Mark Richard -- I'm only sleeping / John Rybicki -- Number stations / Smith Henderson -- Casals / Gerald Stern -- Mishti Kukur / Deborah Thompson -- Patronized / Tara Hart -- The Ballad of Mushie Momzer / Steve Stern -- My sky diary / Claire Bateman -- The MFA/Creative writing system is a closed, undemocratic, medieval guild system that represses good writing / Anis Shivani -- Spell against Gods / Patrick Phillips -- Glad to be human / Irene O'Garden -- The veranda / Frederic Tuten -- Theory op i.e. [of] lipstick / Karla Huston -- Five / Lydia Davis -- Ocean state job lot / Stephen Burt -- Practice journey / Albert Goldbarth -- Grace notes / Nancy Mitchell -- Father Olufemi / Tim O'Sullivan -- Meditation after an excellent dinner / Mark Halliday -- Never come back / Elizabeth Tallent -- Family math / Alan Michael Parker -- Dark horse / Lisa Couturier -- Murder ballad / Jane Springer -- That story / Jack Driscoll -- Russians / David Rigsbee -- Girls, at play / Celeste Ng -- Silhouettes / Sarah Busse -- Sean / Robert Anthony Siegel -- The telephone / Kathleen Graber -- Janjaweed wife / E.C. Osondu -- The b's / Steve Myers -- Satan sun / Raymond Andrews -- Little wet monster / Chad Sweeney -- Never give an inch / Gerald Howard -- Certainty / Judith Kitchen -- The red carpet / Juan Villoro ER -