Weirdly, I've just read two Pulitzer winners lately. Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteredge, Olive Again, The Burgess Boys, Amy and Isabelle. Fab writer Seriously.
Just unfinshed A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan. SUCKED.
It seems short story compilations are a thing. Strout does it well. Egan needs a slap upside the head, plus ya need at least one character about whom you give one shit.
Tada.
Pulitzer winners Daniel!
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Pulitzer winners Daniel!
Well, then
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Re: Pulitzer winners Daniel!
A Visit from the Good Squad was an experimental novel, and I think it won based on that technique more than anything else. I met Jennifer Egan at a reception for her newest book Manhattan Beach, which I thought was much better than Goon Squad. In fact, I got a picture of me with her...
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It's good, set in the home front during WWII.
There were quite a few Pulitzer winners that I would never have read otherwise. It's funny how a book can be regarded as the best of the year when it came out, and how only some of those stand the test of time.
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