Pulitzer slight

[Mark Kohut]

And, as I've now heard from two readers who are not into Pulitzer details,
"I guess it was a bad year for fiction"......
 
THAT is the impression they have created. 
 
yeah, like 1973....


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From: Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net>
To: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>; Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> 
Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Pulitzer slight

This gives a pretty good rundown, including the names of the three fiction jurors. These days the jury recommends three books, but not a winner among them. The Pulitzer board decides that, and this year, a majority didn't like any of the three:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/17/pulitzer-board-awards-no-fiction-prize-angering-jurors.html

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bekah" <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Henry M" <scuffling at gmail.com>
Cc: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Pulitzer slight


It really is rather disgusting -  I mean who decided those should be the finalists?  :-P

Bek
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/

On Apr 17, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Henry M wrote:

> I tell ya, it's a slap in the face to novelists and to readers of novels, alike, is what it is.
> 
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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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/
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> 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.
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> The finalists,  according to http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Fiction  were :
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> "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;
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> "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;
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> and
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> "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.
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> Bek
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