The History of the United States According to Colson Whitehead

Since the publication of his first novel in 1999, Colson Whitehead has become one of the most lauded, prized, taught, and studied American novelists writing today. Winner of the National Book Award, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize (the only writer apart from William Faulkner and John Updike to accomplish this), recipient of a MacArthur […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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“Yoknapatawpha on the Hudson”? On the Novelistic Universe of Edith Wharton

Like William Faulkner or Thomas Hardy, and not unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Edith Wharton loved some milieus too much for just one story. In its setting and characters, The Old Maid is quintessential Wharton, the New York-born author who wrote fifteen novels and novellas and became the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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‘I almost got hit’: the Ukrainian journalists turned war correspondents overnight

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The Winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize Have Been Announced

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The Essential Sophie Gilbert Reading List

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Washington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize In Public Service Journalism For Jan. 6 Coverage

The Post’s extensive reporting found numerous failures in political systems and security before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Continue reading at The Huffington Post

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Diane Seuss, Joshua Cohen, Andrea Elliott among Pulitzer Prize winners in books

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Washington Post wins public service Pulitzer for Capitol attack coverage

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Ali Smith’s ‘Companion Piece’ is a novel for people who love language

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John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised?

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Historical Novelists and Fantasy Writers Should Be Friends

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The people who teach us history aren’t always historians

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7 Novels About the Theatre Set in Victorian London

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