This collection will reveal to you what electronic madness has wrought in our lives and society. Through letters, essays, news clips, poems, cartoons, and testimonials, the members of the Lead Pencil Club suggest how you can restore mindfulness, sanity, and simplicity to your life and the lives of your children. Have you just junked your most recent, instantly obsolete, computer? Are you thinking of buying your first computer? Do you find that your business and personal life have been invaded by a bewildering array of electronics--from voice and E-mail to faxes and televisions with hundreds of channels to the wildly hyped Internet and World Wide Web? Do you suffer from info-overload? Do you sometimes think we have lost our souls in a constant quest for speed, entertainment, and convenience? The Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club is a dynamic record of an ongoing meeting of minds from as far away as Tasmania, India, and Austria and as close to home as California and New York. Contributors include Russell Baker, Neil Postman, David Gelernter, Wendell Berry, Sven Birkerts, Mark Slouka, Clifford Stoll, Doris Grumbach, Andre Codrescu, and others, with comments by John Updike, Robert Hughes, Henry David Thoreau, E. Annie Proulx, Alvin Toffler, Dave Barry, Edmund Morris, Farley Mowat, Ted Koppel, Nicholson Baker, Paul Goodman, Gary Snyder, Kirkpatrick Sale, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, plus letters and news items from around the world.

Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Pulling the Plug on the Electronic Revolution

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In 1980, thirty-nine-year-old Bill Henderson promised his dying mother that he would finally settle down and have a family. It was a promise to grow up, to make the transition from son to father. Four years later, his daughter was born. Her Father is the story, told with astonishing candor and self-deprecating humor, of a belated coming of age. Here Henderson, the founder and publisher of the Pushcart Press, traces his journey to fatherhood in painstaking and hilarious detail. He begins in the 1970s, with his freewheeling life as a struggling small publisher and man-about-New-York-City in the heyday of sexual freedom. He describes meeting his wife at a cocktail-soaked book launch party, their move out of the city to a "shack" on Long Island, the ups and downs of their relationship, and their initial ambivalence about having a child. Ending with the hilarious misadventures leading to the birth of their daughter and cameos of her early years, Her Father is a highly personal yet universally familiar account of one man's passage to adulthood and concurrent spiritual reawakening.

The 1997 Pushcart Prize Xxi: Best of the Small Presses (21)

Henderson, Bill

Matthews, William

Strachen, Patricia

United States

Lists small magazine and book publishers, and includes subject and regional indexes

The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses, 40th Edition (2005)

Politics & Social Sciences

Fulton, Len

Social Sciences

The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses 1995-1996

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Lists small magazine and book publishers, and includes subject and regional indexes

The International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses, 32nd Edition: 1996-97

History & Criticism

The International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses: 1997-98 (INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF LITTLE MAGAZINES AND SMALL PRESSES)

Through the eyes of Tollie and Lily, two high school chums, Pierce lovingly and accurately brings to life a Southern mill town at the end of an era. This first novel was nominated as an outstanding book of the year by the American Library Association.

Hope Mills

Pierce, Constance

The most honored literary series in America, The Pushcart Prize has been named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and hailed with Pushcart Press as "among the most influential in the development of the American book business" by Publishers Weekly. For the 2003 edition, The Pushcart Prize presents scores of brilliant short stories, poems, and essays selected from hundreds of presses and literary journals with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. This is a stunning presentation of new and celebrated authors, picked from almost 8,000 nominations.

The Pushcart Prize 2003: Best of the Small Presses

The most honored literary series in America, The Pushcart Prize has been named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and hailed with Pushcart Press as "among the most influential in the development of the American book business" by Publishers Weekly "The ex-officio house organ for the American literary cosmos."―Chicago Tribune For the 2003 edition, The Pushcart Prize presents scores of brilliant short stories, poems, and essays selected from hundreds of presses and literary journals with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. This is a stunning presentation of new and celebrated authors, picked from almost 8,000 nominations.

Pushcart Prize 2003: Best of the Small Presses

The Pushcart Prize Xxix: Best Of The Small Presses, 2005 Edition

An annual collection of more than sixty of the prior year's top selected short stories, essays, and poems as published in literary magazines and small presses is complemented by an index to the series and a listing of hundreds of outstanding presses and authors. Simultaneous.

The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best Of The Small Presses, 2005 Edition

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