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Roundup of 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for literature
Republican-American· 2 days 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...
V. V. Ganeshananthan Named Winner of the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
People via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is the largest literary prize for women and non-binary authors...
School of the Arts Alumni Named Finalists in 2024 Pulitzer Prizes
Columbia University News· 6 days agoInterdisciplinary School of the Arts Alumni Named Finalists in 2024 Pulitzer Prizes By Carlos
'Brotherless Night,' an ambitious novel about Sri Lankan civil war, wins $150K prize
KPBS San Diego· 2 days agoThe writer V. V. Ganeshananthan has won this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, for her novel Brotherless Night. This is the second year of the < ...
Colson Whitehead cancels UMass Amherst commencement speech over "shameful" protest arrests
CBS News· 6 days agoAuthor Colson Whitehead will no longer be the keynote speaker for the University of Massachusetts...
Literary calendar for week of May 12
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 4 days agoKATHERINE APPLEGATE: Newbery medalist discusses “The One and Only Family,” newest in her series that began with “The One and Only Ivan” followed by “The One and Only Bob” and “The One and Only ...
'Fallout' is fun, but the reality of a post-nuclear apocalypse is nightmare fuel
LA Times via AOL· 7 days agoPrime Video's hit show "Fallout" and other pop culture depictions of the post-apocalypse are pretty far from reality, as this writer learns from Annie Jacobsen's "Nuclear War: A Scenario."
UMass undergrads call for Chancellor Javier Reyes’ resignation; grad speaker Colson Whitehead pulls...
The Republican· 6 days agoA new chancellor’s decision this week to send police to clear a student protest at the University of...
‘The Sympathizer’ Is Your New Spy Show Obsession
Men's Health via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHere's when every episode of 'The Sympathizer,' starring Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh and based on the novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, will be available...
Biblioracle: Lydia Millet’s ‘We Loved It All’ is a beautiful and sad meditation on the world’s...
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoIt’s been a frequent sensation for me when reading the novels and stories of Lydia Millet, a writer whom I’ve been reading for nearly 25 years, starting with her strange, satire from 1999 that ...