CruelestMonth.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Congratulations to this year's Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass, for his book Time and Materials. The book had previously won the National Book Award, so this is quite a feat. Audio of Hass reading his work and reflecting on his...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Junot Diaz , having already won the Pulitzer Prize , the National Book Critics Circle Award , and the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , can now add a Dayton Literary Peace Prize to add to his collection. (The nonfiction prize went to Edwige Danticat for Brother, I'm Dying .) The announcement came just a day after MIT professor Henry Jenkins posted his Junot...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Also see below: You Still Don't Get the Subprime Crisis? • In one of the scenes from "Maus," American journalist and 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman's terrific graphic novel, the author depicts his father, a survivor of Nazi camps who settled in New York, setting aside his morning tea bag to reuse in the evening: This subtle and terrible image of a survivor's reflexes perfectly illustrates...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hollywood producer and stage director Robert A. Miller will open the season for The Rep, Point Park University's professional theatre company, with Miller's first-ever production of his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
CruelestMonth.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
In case you hadn't seen it yet, Pulitzer Prize-winner James Tate has a new book out called The Ghost Soldiers. "It's rare that a poet so far into his career—this is Tate's 15th collection—comes up with something new; quietly, Tate...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
“You be lookin’ pretty junky with a Night of Joy broom stickin out your ass,” Jones said very slowly. “Night of Joy broom old, they good and splintery.” The Pulitzer Prize-Winning A Confederacy of Dunces existed in my peripheral vision for some years. At some point I must have read the introduction and learned that John [...]
The Hill's Pundit Blog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Seeing the revival of “South Pacific” on the same day last week as Sen. Barack Obama’s (Ill.) nomination to be the Democratic presidential candidate had an interesting connection for me. The play, based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Tales of the South Pacific, was adapted by Joshua Logan half a century ago, has become [...]
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Cincinnati Enquirer Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jim Borgman has been with the Enquirer for 32 years. "I've enjoyed doing two of the best jobs I can imagine -- drawing editorial cartoons and my comic strip 'Zits' -- and I have loved it all, although it is exhausting," he says. > Tennessean editorial page editor Gibson announces retirement
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Lowell Bergmann is a ground breaking investigative reporter, a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series "Frontline" in the US and he spent 14 years as a producer with CBS's "60 Minutes". Bergman shared a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Who would've thought that Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and filmmaker David Mamet would ever make a martial arts film? The Bard of the "F" word usually restricts his fights to the verbal arena, watching as predators try to out talk one another in a game of metronomic one-upmanship. So, what's he doing making a martial arts film with a plot that sounds like American Ninja 4 ?
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Devout fans of Marilynne Robinson—those still astonished, nearly three decades later, by the poetry of Housekeeping (1980), and those who made the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead (2004) into an unlikely best seller—will be thrilled by Home (FSG, $25), which is essentially a second serving of Gilead , though a trifle less intense, softened by the gentle presence of a female protagonist. We’re back in...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
From Elaine Woo 's obit today: Edwin O. Guthman , a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and editor whose aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories during the 1970s earned him the enmity of President Nixon and the No. 3 spot on Nixon's infamous enemies list, has died. He was 89. (Snip) Guthman, who was also a longtime USC professor and a founding member of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission,...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
LOS ANGELES — Edwin O. Guthman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the infamous "enemies list" prepared by aides of President Richard Nixon and who served as press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 89. Guthman, who had a rare disease called amyloidosis, died Sunday at his Pacific Palisades home, said Bryce Nelson, a family spokesman.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Edwin O. Guthman, 89, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman respected for his unwavering integrity and whose storied career included stints as a soldier, a public servant, an educator, and editor of The Inquirer's editorial pages, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles.
