Pulitzer slight

[Bekah]

Thanks -  the method is screwed up if the jury only gets to choose between three (3!) pre-selected books.  

Another book which would have been a really likely candidate is Chad Harbach's  The Art of Fielding - the article is right - it was a very good year for fiction but you'd never be able to tell that from the Pulitzer short list.  

Bekah
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/

On Apr 17, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Tom Beshear wrote:

> 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:
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> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/17/pulitzer-board-awards-no-fiction-prize-angering-jurors.html
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> ----- 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
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> It really is rather disgusting -  I mean who decided those should be the finalists?   :-P
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> Bek
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/
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> On Apr 17, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Henry M wrote:
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>> 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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>> AsB4,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:19 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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>> > Once again, no Pulitzer Prize for fiction:
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>> > 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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