Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and acclaimed author Anna Quindlen has sold her longtime Upper West Side home after almost three decades, records show.Quindlen—whose novels include her first, 1991's Object Lessons, and her latest, 2024's After Annie—parted ways with the 5-story property on West 71st Street for $4.8 million, according to a deed that appeared in the city register Wednesday.The seven-bedroom, four-bathroom townhouse near the Hudson River Greenway features a wood-paneled gallery topped with beamed ceilings, a gas fireplace and a private yard. It also seemed to offer inspiration. Quindlen's 2018 book Alternate Side, a tale about tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood, takes place on a quaint Upper West Side block similar to the one where she lived.The buyer of the 1901 Renaissance Revival-style townhouse was a trust controlled by husband-and-wife couple Danielle and Ephraim Luft, entrepreneurs who co-founded Upper West Side-based tech company Togetherhood.Quindlen, who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a series of works in The New York Times, signed the deed herself, based on the register. David Katzman, an attorney at the White Plains-based law firm Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin & Lever involved in the transaction on Quindlen's behalf did not respond to a request for comment by press time.Kelly Cole, a Compass agent who marketed the home, also had no comment by press time. And Michelle Tepper, an attorney with her own Midtown-based firm... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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The pioneering Black journalist is revered for her reporting that exposed lynching as a white tool of political terror against Black people. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
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Author wins fiction prize for The Nickel Boys while the first ever prize for audio reporting goes to an episode of the hit podcastColson Whitehead, This American Life and writers from the New York Times are among this year’s Pulitzer prize winners.During an online, at-home video, the Pulitzer... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The Associated Press has won a Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for images made during India’s clampdown on Kashmir Continue reading at ABC News
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The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners in 15 Journalism and seven Book, Drama and Music categories were announced on Monday, May 4 at Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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For the past six years, Independent Bookstore Day—billed as a “one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country”—has taken place on the last Saturday of April. (That’s tomorrow!) It’s usually a fun, light-hearted, occasionally raucous spring day where book lovers go... Continue reading at Electric Literature
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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and former poet laureate Natasha Trethewey’s memoir tells a tragic and inspiring story that shaped her life and work. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Pulitzer Prize Board has postponed the announcement of the winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading at Book Riot
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The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2020 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020, Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Just when you thought the cruelest month couldn’t get any crueler, the Pulitzer Prize Board has only gone and decided to postpone the most anticipated announcement in American letters . . . by two weeks. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 20, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama, and Music... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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In 1981, A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—a rare honor for a work of humor. That must have been about when my stepmother started reading the book. I was five years old, and didn’t know how to read yet. I also didn’t know the sad […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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“Later” takes place from 1991 to 1994, when Lisicky moved to Provincetown, Mass., for a writing fellowship. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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The annual AWP Conference will be held despite any threat from the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This year's event, which takes place from March 4-7, is being held in San Antonio, Tex. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Every week, the TBR pile grows a little bit more. It’s getting precarious. It’s taking up your whole nightstand. It’s threatening to crush you in your sleep. Well, what are you waiting for? Get cracking. What are you reading this week? FICTION Brandon Taylor, Real Life (Riverhead) Brandon... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The novel takes place in Laos where deadly bombings are so common, nobody hears them anymore. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | LARB Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz is joined by author and USC Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer, at a recent LARB Luminary Dinner. Viet begins by talking about about his family’s... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
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Over the years, Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald has made more than a few enemies. What some of his fans and supporters see as a crusade for truth and justice can strike others—including those who become the targets of his journalistic crusades—as needlessly hostile and potentially biased.... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
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This week, we highlight a writing guide from Chuck Palahniuk; a candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity from Peggy Orenstein; a ruminative, endlessly clever book, Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Hass; and a whole lot more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Journalism entry site is now open for the 2020 cycle. As entrants begin to take stock of their eligible Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Something to look forward to in 2020: the Pulitzer Prize Board has announced a new experimental category, Audio Reporting. “The renaissance of audio journalism in recent years has given rise to an extraordinary array of non-fiction storytelling,” says Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy. (Hello,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Podcasts like S-Town, Serial and Believed aren't just enthralling, they're also great examples of hard-hitting, in-depth reporting. With that in mind, the Pulitzer Prize Board is adding a new journalism prize category for audio reporting. Continue reading at Engadget
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