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DarkZero (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
It’s a shame, we were just getting ready to rant at another ignorant old man who’s never picked up a game in his life, but we thought we’d better read first and it turns out he actually knows what he’s talking about. I know, we were as shocked as you!Junot Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his debut novel, and writes for the Wall Street Journal. He also happens to be a pretty...
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Mr. Excitement News (Free subscription) | yesterday
I do not think that this will be happening: The full cast and creative team have been announced for Redtwist Theatre's gender-bending production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, July 15-August 24. Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic spin on salesmen in the 1980s will include several female cast members to explore the prospect of women in a world of men. According to Ira Nadel's recent
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NPR Blogs: News & Views (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Alice and Rebecca Walker photographed in 1992, before the two were estranged. Corbis On tomorrow's show, Farai Chideya will speak with author Rebecca Walker -- daughter of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Alice Walker -- about Rebecca's new memoir, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence. In it, Rebecca expands on her estrangement with her feminist mother. Here's part of how...
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THE BEAT (Free subscription) | yesterday
While the online manga world continues to fret about whether manga will ever grow up, Chris Butcher spots some evidence in TIME Magazine: Meanwhile, Time Magazine is running an article on the guilty pleasures of famous authors. #1? Why it’s Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz talking about his love of Naoki Urasawa’s MONSTER: [...]
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Buzz Girl (Free subscription) | yesterday
Met with A.C. --short list this time, but lot of good, serious history. Coming in September 2008 Angler by Barton Gellman. Gellman, a Polk and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, documents how Cheney redefined the role of vice president. Embargoed! The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners by David Fromkin. The story of the unlikely friendship between
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives" expands the meticulous and marvelously modulated reporting he did for the Rocky Mountain News and for which he received a Pulitzer Prize.
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The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Rob Tornoe reviews the life of Jesse Helms through the eyes of one his arch nemesis, the late editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette. As a cartoonist, when I think of Helms, it may be fitting that I think of an old foe of his who also lost his life a short while ago, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist [...]
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BizzyBlog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... Horton Ad Unbeknownst to most, a Massachusetts newspaper, the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for its 1997 “investigation that revealed serious flaws in the Massachusetts prison furlough system and led to significant statewide reforms.” Willie Horton was among the furloughed prisoners the paper profiled in its 175 stories . The last paragraph of this April...
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Right Mind (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
From Salon : In today's New York Times, James Risen -- who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing Bush's illegal NSA spying program -- has an article reporting on Obama supporters who are criticizing...( read more )
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... joked that he wanted to see more "books with bigger print" in the White House. Even JFK, who won a Pulitzer for his Profiles in Courage, reportedly didn't range far beyond the works of Ian Fleming.Yet now even John McCain seems to be getting in on the act. The Republican nominee recently named Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls as his favourite novel and claimed its hero (a principled American,...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for companies and get generous campaign
contributions in return. This prize is named for the late Pulitzer-Prize
winning reporter who conducted groundbreaking investigations into the
influence of organized crime in American society and carries a $10,000
prize.
Rebecca Mowbray, business writer for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans,
La., has earned the Award for Excellence in Economic Reporting...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times , was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen -- and why the hell not? He wore the mantle lightly at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in part because he married into the gazillionaire Buxbaum family, who have so far given tens of millions of dollars to the town, with the latest dollop a $25 million...
