Pulitzer slight

[Elaine M.M. Bell]

*The most interesting aspect of this conversation is that the intrepid
David Foster Wallace continued writing even after death!
*
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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