The publish-it-yourself handbook: Literary tradition and how to without commercial or vanity publisher

The publish-it-yourself handbook: Literary tradition and how to without commercial or vanity publishers

Business & Money

Henderson, Bill

Management & Leadership

Pushcart Press

A collection of short stories, essays, and poems, culled from small presses and literary journals

The Pushcart Prize 11

Literature & Fiction

Pushcart

United States

Penguin??Books

The Pushcart Prize 12

Inspiring meditations on the human drive to build skyward, from a man who did it himself "There are hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny towers to appreciate. You remember how as a child you made them out of sand or blocks or tin cans . . . Two inches or 3,000 feet, the size of the tower is of no importance. All are mere pebbles on the earth's surface. It is the tall imagination that counts, in this book at least." Tower is Bill Henderson's winning personal account of erecting, by hand and almost entirely on his own, a wooden tower on a plot of land in Maine. For Henderson, constructing the edifice--which he resolutely declares to have "no purpose," religious or utilitarian--is an exercise in faith and self-reliance. Henderson guides us through the details of design and construction with clear illustrations and with humor, often digressing to contemplate the various towers of Yeats, Joyce, Sam Rodia, and Gustave Eiffel. The finished result is not only Henderson's completed tower, in which we share an inspiring sense of accomplishment, but a revelatory insight into what motivates the builders and thinkers who precede our own efforts to gain a higher viewpoint.

Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A collection of short stories, essays, and poems, culled from small presses and literary journals

Pushcart Prize, III

AVON.

1980, First Avon Printing, Paperback, 589 pages

Pushcart Prize IV: Best of the Small Presses

Pushcart Prize V: Best of the Small Presses [Mar 01, 1981] Henderson, Bill

Pushcart Prize V: Best of the Small Presses

Avon/Books

Her Father: A Memoir

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.

Faber&Faber

The Pushcart Prize XV: Best of the Small Presses

Touchstone Books

Documents the stories behind some of America's most revered hymns, in an account that shares the author's concerns about how hymn traditions are being compromised by modern hymn adaptations and traces his search for community and religious grace through hymn singing. 30,000 first printing.

Simple Gifts: Great Hymns: One Man's Search for Grace

Arts & Photography

Music

Free Press

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