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Roundup of 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for literature
Republican-American· 1 day agoA beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union...
New York Times best-selling author revisits 1986 space shuttle tragedy in 'Challenger' (interview)
Space via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoAdam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. "People often asked me whether I...
Recommended Reads: Omaha Public Library staff recommend microhistories, nonfiction books
Omaha World-Herald· 2 days agoOmaha Public Library wants to help readers find new books — or at least books new to them. This...
How Salman Rushdie Reckoned With an Unthinkable Attack
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoYes, yes, happiness could reemerge after tragedy and pain. I don’t begrudge the author this message,...
Jayne Anne Phillips' novel 'Night Watch,' Eboni Booth’s drama 'Primary Trust' among Pulitzer winners
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 6 days agoStories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, were winners this year for the...
Author John Vaillant has a climate change PSA
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMay 10—ASthe crow flies, the Canadian city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, is nearly 1,500 miles from Santa Fe. But the catastrophic wildfire that took the city by storm eight years ago was a bellwether ...
School of the Arts Alumni Named Finalists in 2024 Pulitzer Prizes
Columbia University News· 5 days agoInterdisciplinary School of the Arts Alumni Named Finalists in 2024 Pulitzer Prizes By Carlos
Shankari Chandran’s Safe Haven, a gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an...
The Conversation· 7 days agoSafe Haven is an excoriating account of a shameful period of Australian history, told in a life-affirming voice that imagines a more humane future.
Emily Henry, Douglas Preston, Judi Dench: new bestsellers
The Virginian-Pilot· 1 day agoOn the New York Times list for the week ended April 27: Emily Henry, Douglas Preston, Judi Dench,...
The Radical Worldmaking of Joanna Russ
The Nation· 2 days agoThe science-fiction writer Joanna Russ set down those words in 1984. Russ wrote unsparingly, if also elegantly, against those elements in society that...
