Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
... test indicated his blood-alcohol level was double the legal limit. Shepard, who won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play "Buried Child," told police he had been at a tavern in nearby Bloomington and was heading to a hotel. He said he was on his way to his home in Kentucky from Minnesota.
A Garden Carried in the Pocket (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Sandler, Martin W. Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship . Sandler is the author of more than 50 books and has received two Pulitzer nominations. This book covers a broad range of the history of arctic exploration and relates the importance of the failed Franklin expedition in the eventual discovery of the Northwest...
Tom's MAD Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Artwork by Michael Ramirez, Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist The National Cartoonists Society Foundation is once again administering the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship for college students who are studying and/or pursuing work as cartoonists. Last year’s winner, Juanita Medina, received not only a scholarship but a free trip to attend and be honored at the NCS [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Critics and SAG members like John Patrick Shanley's film adaptation of his Pulitzer-winning play, Doubt , but what do nuns think? And, even more pressing, what do blogging nuns think? For the next two hours, at A Nun's Life, the Sisters of Charity of New York will be hosting a live discussion of the movie in the comments section of this post . [ A Nun's Life ] Read more posts by Lane Brown...
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
A proposed bailout for the publishing industry : The role of the ratings agencies cannot be overlooked in creating this crisis. The Pulitzer, Booker and National Book Foundation committees continued to award top ratings to these novels, even as unread copies piled up all over America. These unreadable novels are clogging up our literary system, and undermining the strength of our otherwise...
the nytpicker (Free subscription) | yesterday
For confused readers and Pulitzer Prize judges: No, the story entitled "THE RECKONING" (emblazoned in 800-point type across the front page of today's sports section) does not appear to explain how the Florida-Oklahoma B.C.S. championship football game tonight represents one of the root causes of our current economic downturn.
PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pulitzer prize winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg once said, "Nothing happens unless first a dream." At the start of Day 2, 380 players entered the Imperial Ballroom with a dream dancing around their heads. That dream? Winning the 2009 PCA and taking home a cool $3 million. Each player had their future in their own hands and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to transform a pipe dream into a reality....
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... to the arts, rowdy ninth-graders will also be paying visits to the Lincoln Center and possibly a "Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to gain the confidence to try writing [their] own scenes." (Presumably, meetings with fancy directors and playwrights will be arranged by the school's A-listy board of directors and advisers.) Furthermore, students will be able to study abroad during their junior...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... to the arts, rowdy ninth-graders will also be paying visits to the Lincoln Center and possibly a "Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to gain the confidence to try writing [their] own scenes." (Presumably, meetings with fancy directors and playwrights will be arranged by the school's A-listy board of directors and advisers.) Furthermore, students will be able to study abroad during their junior...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
W ith a wave to bystanders on a chilly morning in Minneapolis, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Walter Berryman swan-dived off the Washington Avenue bridge and hit the frozen bank by the Mississippi River. It was a tragic end to the confessional poet's tragic life. Born John Allyn Smith, he was only 12 when his father, a banker who had lost his job, had shot himself. Within two month, his wife married...
Religion Dispatches (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson third novel in as many decades is packed with Robinson's signature themes of struggle, torment, grace, mystery and vulnerability—in other words: Christianity. Indeed, only a Christian of uncommon mettle could write a novel so untainted by the bastardized tropes of Christian culture.
US News (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Pulitzer-winning photographer Stephen Crowley gets Roland Burris right.
God's Politics (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. - Anne O’Hare McCormick, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail …
Collin Kelley...Modern Confessional (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The film version of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play has received mixed reviews, but don't let that stop you from seeing this: it's a powerhouse. Merryl Streep adds another pitch-perfect, nuanced performance to her canon and is sure to get an Oscar nomination for her role as Sister Aloysius, the principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx, circa 1964. Streep...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... the death of Mayor Caliguiri and an investigation into the organ transplant system, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. In 1995, while with the Washington Post's investigative team, she was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation into the D.C. police department. During the most recent presidential election, both Kathy and Mary Pat were on the campaign trail.While most...
