21st Century Literature discussion

Here are some links for the 2013 Pulitzer Prizes:

2013 Awards: http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2013

2013 Finalists: http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/2013

Fiction winner: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (Random House)

Fiction finalists:

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander (Alfred A. Knopf)

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown)

Enough prizes for today. Going to quit for now! ;-0

Want to read 'What we Talk About...'

I just bought it.

Oh, I'm confused. I bought something else :)

Deborah wrote: "Oh, I'm confused. I bought something else :)"

Deborah -- maybe Lionel Shriver? I have her We Need to Talk About Kevin unread on my book shelves. My f2f group read her The Post-Birthday World a few years ago -- good, not great, IMO.

Having recently read Stedman's The Light Between Oceans, Ivey's The Snow Child is beguiling, with its seemingly similar theme of a child from where?

Announcement of 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/20/media...

The Pulitzers' arts categories recognized Anthony Doerr's novel "All the Light We Cannot See," Stephen Adly Guirgis's play "Between Riverside and Crazy," the musical composition "Anthracite Fields" by Julia Wolfe, and poetry by Gregory Pardlo.

They also honored Elizabeth A. Fenn's history "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People," David I. Kertzer's biography "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe," and Elizabeth Kolbert's nonfiction work "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History."

Also: http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2015

Thanks Lily. I'm intrigued by The Pope and Mussolini.

Linda wrote: "Thanks Lily. I'm intrigued by The Pope and Mussolini."

I couldn't stomach the whole thing, but I have been very moved, even influenced, by The Sixth Extinction. My acquaintances find me referring to it often.

You can find more on the Music winner here: http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/2015-pul...

Kirsten wrote: "You can find more on the Music winner here: http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/2015-pul..."

Thanks for the link - great music. I've known some coal miners and that is a job that takes its toal.

Here's a New Yorker article on Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

From the Pulitzer Web site re fiction winners:

Finalists in Fiction

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Let Me Be Frank With You," by Richard Ford (Ecco), an unflinching series of narratives, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, insightfully portraying a society in decline; "The Moor's Account," by Laila Lalami (Pantheon), a creative narrative of the ill-fated 16th Century Spanish expedition to Florida, compassionately imagined out of the gaps and silences of history; and "Lovely, Dark, Deep," by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco), a rich collection of stories told from many rungs of the social ladder and distinguished by their intelligence, language and technique.

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015...

Jury

Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor, Chicago Tribune (Chair)
Alan Cheuse, author, writer and NPR book commentator, Washington, DC
David Haynes, professor of English and director of creative writing, Southern Methodist University