FAILURES OF MEMORY, NOT OF LOVE: Congratulations to the Washington Post's Gene Weingarten on his second Pulitzer Prize win of the past three years -- this time, for his wrenching, compassionate take on the question of what kind of person forgets a baby? which we discussed last March. Among the other winners discussed here: the NYT's Don't Text and Drive series.
The winners are all here, and while the particulars of some may be beyond this blog's normal scope, good journalism is always going to be worth heralding and supporting. (Of note: two of the three nonfiction book winners went to books pertaining to finance -- Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World and T.J. Stiles' bio of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The other winner, for general nonfiction, was David Hoffman's The Dead Hand on the Cold War arms race.)
