Pulitzer, etc. prizes

[Craig Bleakley]

Brian McCary queries:
  Has anyone on the list read anything yet published
this year which they feel is a viable competitor with M&D for the annual
book type 
awards?

No, but that doesn't mean I don't have opinions.  "Cold Mountain" gets the
Pulitzer (look at their criteria),  DeLillo gets the National Book Award,
either Dennis Johnson ("Already Dead") or Stephen Dobyns ("The Church of
Dead Girls") picks up the National Critics Book Polyhedron, or whatever it
is.  Maybe Roth's "American Gothic"(?) slips in somewhere. Pynchon gets zippo.  

Remember, you heard it here first.  
Oh, and for you British subjects: some drunken Irish lout nabs the Booker.
Cheers.

Two--oops, three further questions:

Can one make book on such speculations in, say, Las Vegas?

Who and what has won the Howells Medal before or since GR?  It's not named
after the "Gilligan's Island" Howells, is it?

Opinionatedly,
Craig B.

"When death is outlawed, only outlaws will be dead."