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Best of the Small Presses 2022 Two stories from the New England Review have been selected for inclusion in the next Pushcart Prize collection: McKenna Marsden’s “Suffering in Motion” ( NER 40.4) and Lindsay Starck’s “Baikal” ( NER 41.4). The XLVI edition will be published in November 2021. McKenna Marsden, a current MFA candidate at the University of Maryland-College Park, grew up in Oregon and spent the majority of their adult life in greater Boston. “Suffering in Motion” was ...

This thing called life in Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Souvenir Museum’ By Joseph Peschel Globe Correspondent,Updated April 15, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Associated Press Whether they take place in Ireland, Texas, Illinois, Amsterdam, or Scotland, the marvelous stories in “The Souvenir Museum,” Elizabeth McCracken’s impressive third story collection evoke moving depictions of marriage and parenthood, and love, betrayal, and loneliness. McCracken, who was bor...

Nibbies 2021: Bookstore, Small Press Regional and Country Winners Eight retailers and nine small presses now are in the running for the British Book Awards’ top winners’ list, coming in May. At Mr. B’s Emporium in Bath, winner of the 2021 British Book Awards’ honor for bookstore in Southwest England. Image: Mr. B’s British Book Awards’ Ceremony: May 13 As Publishing Perspectives readers will remember, the shortlists issued last month for the 2021 British Book Awards‘ honors in sm...

More than 90 small presses and independent bookshops have made the shortlists for the 2021 British Book Awards in regional and country categories. Far from the Madding Crowd, a bookstore set on two floors of a Georgian building in Scotland’s Linlithgow, is in contention for a regional/country honor in the British Book Awards. Image: MaddingCrowdLinlithgow.com Forty-four Small Presses, 48 Bookstores Among the distinguishing contributions of the British Book Awards to the United Kingdom’s ind...

In Dreaming the Marsh (Twisted Road, 2019), a giant sinkhole begins swallowing an enormous swath of a marsh-like ecosystem that has been slated for development, along with parts of a highway and a large lake. The citizens of Opakulla, Florida, struggle to understand what is happening as the land is sucked under. They’re also perplexed by un-erasable writing that appears on their new town hall. The sinkhole starts wreaking havoc with their lives and nobody knows what to do about it. A lovesic...