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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">By definition, one novel is the best every year,in some way of judging. They should risk a choice.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">And some of their choices have been so bad, they could not choose worse.....</SPAN></div>
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<DIV class=hr style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; HEIGHT: 0px" readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Bekah <bekah0176@sbcglobal.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> kelber@mindspring.com <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> pynchon-l@waste.org <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, April 16, 2012 11:02 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Pulitzer slight<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:19 PM, <A href="mailto:kelber@mindspring.com" ymailto="mailto:kelber@mindspring.com">kelber@mindspring.com</A> wrote:<BR><BR>> Once again, no Pulitzer Prize for fiction:<BR>> <BR>>
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/04/16/pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award/<BR><BR><BR>Apparently the 3 judges (Susan Larson, Maureen Corrigan and Michael Cunningham) couldn't come to an agreement - 2 out of the 3 have to agree. <BR><BR>The finalists, according to http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Fiction were :<BR><BR>"Train Dreams," by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a novella about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to terrors and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm; <BR><BR>"Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf), an adventure tale about an eccentric family adrift in its failing alligator-wrestling theme park, told by a 13-year-old heroine wise beyond her years; <BR><BR>and<BR><BR>"The Pale King," by the late David Foster Wallace(Little, Brown and Company), a posthumously completed novel, animated by grand ambition, that explores boredom and bureaucracy in the American
workplace. <BR><BR><BR>Personally, I didn't think Swamplandia was worthy of a Pulitzer - I doubt I could have brought myself to award anything to a book not completed by its author and I don't know anything about Train Dreams. Maybe it was just not a great year for novels. <BR><BR>Bek<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>