As you probably know already, the collective outrage of the publishing world found a new and wholly unexpected target this week: the Pulitzer Prize award selection committee. Despite a jury’s selection of three titles beloved by many—David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!—the award selection committee (a separate body) declined to pick a winner. Support for the finalists, and speculation as to why none were chosen, has been rampant.
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