The Pushcart Prize XX: Best of the Small Presses, 1996 - ed. Bill Henderson

Written by ed. Bill Henderson
Read by Roy Avers, Madelyn Buzzard
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The Pushcart Prize XX: Best of the Small Presses, 1996
Edited by Bill Henderson
Read by Roy Avers & Madelyn Buzzard
Encode: mp3 - 64kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 68
Total Play time: 20:02:15

Anthology #284
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Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s “Inferno” and Eileen Pollack’s “Milk.”

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Bill Henderson
02) Pity by Avner Mandelman
03) Anna Liffey by Eavan Boland
04) Magic by Art Homer
05) The First Day by Elizabeth Spires
06) Wilma Bremer’s Funeral by Marie Sheppard Williams
07) Something Like Happiness by Stephen Dunn
08) The Match by Maxine Kumin
09) Theories of Illusion by Maureen Seaton
10) Last Things by Debra Spark
11) My Friend by David St. John
12) Super Night by Charles Baxter
13) The Era of the Vari-Vue by Gary Fincke
14) My Father’s Chinese Wives by Sandra Tsing Loh
15) The Storm Chasers by William Olsen
16) The End of the World by Michael Collins
17) Solo, New Orleans by Diann Blakely Shoaf
18) Sex by Irma Wallen
19) Eighteenth-Century Medical Illustration: The Infant in Its Little Room by Ann Townsend
20) The Nearness of the World by Steven Huff
21) Film Noir: Train Trip Out of Metropolis by Lynn Emanuel
22) Videotape by Don DeLillo
23) Seizure by Linda Bierds
24) Bad by Frederick Busch
25) The Barbarians are Coming by Marilyn Chin
26) The Swing of Things by Jennifer C. Cornell
27) History Books by Thomas Lux
28) The More I Like Flies by Reginald McKnight
29) Anaconda by Dennis Sampson
30) The Undesirable Table by Joyce Carol Oats
31) Stillborn by Maribeth Fischer
32) A History of Paisley by Agha Shahid Ali
33) Kingdom of the Sun by Alice Schell
34) Sung from a Hospice by Cyrus Cassells
35) The Instinct for Bliss by Melissa Pritchard
36) Dante’s Inferno, Canto XXXIV by Robert Pinsky
37) Elizabeth Bishop by Frank Bidart
38) Loss by Carl Dennis
39) Closing Out the Visit by John Barth
40) Will Work for Food by Stanley Plumly
41) Mother-Tongue by Nora Cobb Keller
42) Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Molly Bendall
43) When Words Became Windows by Sven Birkerts
44) Chinese Food in the Fifties by Alberto Rios
45) The Late Style by James Robison
46) Of Royal Issue by Brigit Peggen Kelly
47) The Women Come and Go by Cornelia Nixon
48) Sadness, an Improvisation by Donald Justice
49) Updike and I by John Updike
50) Evolution: A Science Fiction by Melinda Mueller
51) Milk by Eileen Pollack
52) A Little Thing Like That by A. R. Ammons
53) False Water Society by Ben Marcus
54) In the Pasture of Dead Horses by Julia Wendell
55) A Happy Vacancy by Stephen Dobyns
56) Elizabeth, Listening by Sabina Grogan
57) Six Days: Some Rememberings by Grace Paley
58) Phlox Diffusa by Sandra McPherson
59) The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven by Rick Moody
60) The Deconstruction of Emily Dickinson by Galway Kinnell
61) Charles the Obscure by Charles Simic
62) Special Mention
63) Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions Since 1976
64) Contributors’ Notes
65) Contributing Small Presses
66) Acknowledgments