Vintage has paid tribute to Pulitzer Prize and Man Booker International Prize-winning author Philip Roth as "one the greatest American novelists of the 20th century” following his death at the age of 85. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A number of authors have taken to Twitter to accuse Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel 'The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,' of sexual harassment and other misconduct. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 357K print copies sold in a single week, 'A Higher Loyalty' by James Comey is #1 in the country. Meanwhile, 'New Yorker' staff writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Lawrence Wright debuts at #19 with 'God Save Texas,' and more in this week's bestseller news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hip-hop upends the Pulitzer Prize and a pair of musicians take to the stage in dresses made out of speakers. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s rocking culture news (and essential cumbia remixes): ESSENTIAL IMAGE The 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kendrick Lamar’s achievement as the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for music is an epochal achievement in hip-hop, and in Pulitzer history for acknowledging the genre’s importance in American cultural life. But there is some precedent and narrative behind this particular award. It’s not the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the (hash)MeToo movement and set off a national reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace. The Times and The Washington Post took... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Their names are inked in history books and on the walls of hallowed concert halls as winners of American music’s most esteemed award, the Pulitzer Prize for music: Aaron Copland, George Crumb, John Luther Adams, Ornette Coleman, Caroline Shaw and dozens more. Add to that list the man nicknamed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Associated Press photographer Max Desfor, whose photo of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 captured the desperation of wartime and helped win him a Pulitzer Prize, has died at the age of 104. Desfor, who died Monday in Silver Spring, Md., volunteered... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gender-bending performance artist Taylor Mac whose 24-hour show "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music," resulting in him being a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama, is a recipient of a 2017 MacArthur 'Genius Grant." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Like certain comets, books by Jeffrey Eugenides appear only rarely. Since 1993 he has dropped a novel a decade: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, which won a Pulitzer Prize, and most recently The Marriage Plot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker. Remnick began editing the magazine in 1998; before then, he was a staff writer for the magazine and a Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post. His coverage of the fall of communism... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tracy K. Smith is a highly accomplished poet (she has a Pulitzer Prize), but at 45, she's several decades younger than many recent US poets laureate Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 'Life on Mars' has been named to the highest public office reserved for an American poet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tracy K. Smith has published three volumes of poetry and won the Pulitzer Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seattle-based poetry publisher Wave Books is seeing a surge of interest after one of its titles, 'Olio' by Tyehimba Jess, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The non-MFA writing school, run by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz, turns 30 this year, and marks the milestone with a new anthology. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning The Underground Railroad (Fleet) has found itself a place on the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in fiction Monday for “The Underground Railroad.” It caps a sweep of accolades that the book has received since its publication by Doubleday in August 2016, including winning the National Book Award in November and being selected by Oprah Winfrey for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
After receiving the Pulitzer Prize for music last year, a Grammy Award nomination and other praise for her coal-mining-themed choral work “Anthracite Fields,” composer Julia Wolfe can add another accolade to her professional mantel: a MacArthur Fellowship, a five-year grant that comes with an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newspaper criticised for calling for the criminal prosecution of its own source, on ‘whose back the paper won and eagerly accepted a Pulitzer Prize’The Washington Post has stunned many people in the United States, including a large section of the country’s journalistic community, by coming out... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]