Monday, April 16, 2012

CARRYING THE BANNER: The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today--a few winners and finalists of note:
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer's series on violence in Philly's public schools wins the Public Service prize.
  • The Harrisburg Patriot-News wins the Local Reporting prize for its reporting on the Penn State football scandal.
  • No award for fiction this year, despite impressive finalists--Swamplandia! and The Pale King.
  • Drama prize is won by Water By The Spoonful, a relatively unknown play, with Other Desert Cities being a finalist.  (Not even mentioned as a finalist--Book of Mormon.)
  • In a rarity, a recent biography of Malcolm X wins the History Prize and is a finalist for the Biography prize.
Anything else we're missing?