Editor Raz's anthology is typical of a now-common practice among
literary magazines: collections that unabashedly celebrate
themselves. Only in this case, there's something a bit off,
beginning with the misleading "best of." Though "Prairie Schooner
"has been publishing for 75 years at the University of Nebraska,
the selections here are drawn from the past 20 (because of
copyright restrictions). Hence, we get all the usual suspects of
the small-mag scene, and none of the greats who once adorned "PS's
"pages, from Willa Cather and Truman Capote to Eudora Welty and
Tennessee Williams. In her introduction, Raz does ransack the
archives for interesting correspondence from the days of its
founders, who include Nebraska students Weldon Kees and Loren
Eiseley. The selections, meantime, read like what you'd expect from
an anthology selected by a committee: diverse, safe, predictable.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Now celebrating seventy-five years of continuous publication,
"Prairie Schooner" has been called one of the best magazines in
America by Nan Talese, "the roots" in Esquire's garden of
contemporary literature, and one of the best places for "fabulous
fiction" by the "Washington Post." One of the oldest and most
prestigious literary journals in the country, it ranks among
"Writer's Digest's" "Nineteen Magazines That Matter." This
anthology collects some of the best fiction and poetry from the
writers who have appeared in the journal's pages.
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