Pulitzer slight

[Henry M]

I tell ya, it's a slap in the face to novelists and to readers of novels,
alike, is what it is.

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Henry Mu
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I guess I somehow find it irresponsible--irrational, I know-----not to
> pick a winner.
> By definition, one novel is the best every year,in some way of judging.
> They should risk a choice.
>
> And some of their choices have been so bad, they could not choose
> worse.....
>
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>   *From:* Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> *To:* kelber at mindspring.com
> *Cc:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Monday, April 16, 2012 11:02 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Pulitzer slight
>
> On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:19 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > Once again, no Pulitzer Prize for fiction:
> >
> > http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/04/16/pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award/
>
>
> 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.
>
> The finalists,  according to
> http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Fiction  were :
>
> "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;
>
> "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;
>
> and
>
> "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.
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> 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.
>
> Bek
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