Pushcart Prize : best of the small presses. 2020, XLIV/
edited by Bill Henderson ; with the Pushcart prize editors.
- 599 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and author index.
The arms of Saturday night / Cally Fiedorek -- Homeschool / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- Roll under the waves / Juan Felipe Herrera -- The human soup / Maureen Stanton -- Arson / Charles Simic -- The history of sound / Ben Shattuck -- Erl king / Julia Elliott -- A fable / Graham Barnhart -- Fat swim / Emma Copley Eisenberg -- Old school / Allen Gee -- An endless story / Louise Glück -- Hi ho cherry-o / Becky Hagenston -- The almadraba / Maia Jenkins -- Say it with your whole black mouth / Danez Smith -- "General: unskilled" / Ryan Eric Dull -- Monticello house tour / Kiki Petrosino -- The peaches of August / Toi Derricotte -- The entertainer / Whitney Collins -- Reza's restaurant. Chicago 1997 / Kaveh Akbar -- Say this / Lucia Perillo -- Monsters / Margaret Wardlaw -- Stethoscope / Tom Sleigh -- Scandalous women in history / Malerie Willens -- That's the job / Edward Hirsch -- The last voyage of the Alice B. Toklas / Jason Brown -- How to mourn the dead / Nausheen Eusuf -- Braindrain / C Pam Zhang -- The ugly American / Shara Lessley -- Walking in fast-falling dusk what is between us besides / Mary Szybist -- Stories that fit my hands / Rebecca McClanahan -- Rewinding an overdose on a projector / Sean Shearer -- Festival / Mary Miller -- Human traffic / Bruce Cohen -- Hao / Ye Chun -- Versal / Francine J. Harris -- The important transport / Diane Williams -- Footprints in the order of disappearance / Fady Joudah -- The cure for racism is cancer / Tony Hoagland -- Dearest water / Nancy Takacs -- Pattycakes / Claire Davis -- Mud Matrix / Hoa Nguyen -- The effect of heat on poor people / Farah Ali -- Is all writing environmental writing? / Camile T. Dungy -- Four short essays personifying a future in which white supremacy has ended / Chen Chen -- New bees / Claire Luchette -- American landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon / Roger Reeves -- Bad northern women / Erin Singer -- The white orchard / Arthur Sze -- Double vi station / Jeffery Harrison -- I confess: my cultural misappropriation / Allan Gurganus -- Skin-light / Natalie Diaz -- Flour / Joy Williams -- An open letter to white women concerning 'The handmaid's tale' and America's cultural amnesia / Tiffany Midge -- Wild pansy / Lisa Bellamy -- Stay there / Leslie Pietrzyk -- Five and a possible / Alison C. Rollins -- Bon voyage, Charlie / Dan Pope -- Jailbait / Ottessa Moshfegh -- Falling /Ron Sottlemyer -- Chinko / Smantha Libby -- Draft/Mouth / Peter LaBerge -- Citizenship / Javier Zamora -- A deliberate thing I once said to my skin / Megan Baxter -- In that time / Richard Bausch -- In the studio at the end of day / Catherine Barnett -- Eulogy / Patricia Foster -- Dante on broadway / Hal Crowther -- Infidels / Joanna Scott -- If you find a mouse on a glue trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith -- Young hare / Diane Seuss -- Petronia Petronia Jyekundensis / Jan Verberkmoes -- Oasis / Deborah Forbes -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 -- The Pushcart Prize fellowships -- Contributing small presses -- Contributors' notes -- Index -- Afterword / Ray Carver.
"The Pushcart Prize is the only annual anthology to exclusively showcase the very best writing from America's alternative literary presses. Each year contributing editors, whose ranks include the most important writers of today, along with hundreds of small presses, nominate thousands of stories, poems, essays and memoirs for inclusion in Pushcart's collection. This unique submissions process ensures a diversity of writing unmatched by any other anthology. This year's gathering includes work by Brian Doyle, Carolyn Forché, George Saunders, Joyce Carol Oates, Ye Chun, Andrew Solomon, Philip Connors, Louisa Ermelino, Jim Shepard, and many more established and new writers representing 53 presses."--Back cover.
9781888889963
American literature--21st century. Small presses--United States. Short stories, American--21st century. American poetry--21st century. American essays--21st century. Autobiography--21st century.