http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday Sorry this is late--I was on assignment and away from computers for most of yesterday--but the Pulitzer Prizes were announced. Tracy Letts won the Drama category for August: Osage County . The fiction winner was the unsurprising The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, which has won oodles of awards in the last six months. This is the second year in a row that the Pulitzers have gone totally safe with their fiction choice, after last year's selection of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. There were two poetry winners, Time and Materials by Robert Hass and Failure by... Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:38:33 -0800 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:03:04 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Paul, what books would you have awarded prizes to? We can look up Pulitzer winners anywhere else.

]]> Peter F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c992890 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c992890 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:40:20 -0800 Yeah, Stranger should have it's own Paulitzer Prize.

]]> jhell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c992962 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c992962 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:17:21 -0800 I just started Oscar Wao yesterday (on the basis of its TOB win), but isn't it entirely possible that the novel is winning oodles of awards because it's deserving (instead of "safe")? What would have been a deservingly brave choice in your opinion? And are the Pulitzers even meant to be brave anyway?

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c992997 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c992997 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:34:07 -0800 I'm still staggered that AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY won the Pulitzer for Drama. How on earth did an excellent play win this prize, which has gone recently to such crap as TOPDOG/UNDERDOG?

]]> Roscoe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993014 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:42:25 -0800 Junot Diaz is reading in my area (NJ) tomorrow-I can't wait to hear his reaction.

]]> jayme http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993072 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993072 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:05:43 -0800 I heard the Times was busy reading No Country For Old Men ... when the awards came out ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993125 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:29:10 -0800 @1 and 3: Oscar Wao is a great book. But the Pulitzer will frequently pick something from the lesser literary pile that deserves extra attention (a la Russo's Empire Falls, which I loved, or Middlesex.) I was thinking that perhaps Amy Bloom's Away would be good for that. But don't interpret my talk of Oscar Wao to be a dismissal; I just didn't think it needed to win another award, since it deservedly ruled the literary roost last year.

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/pulitzer_prizes_announced_yesterday#c993280 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:03:04 -0800