Thank God, They Awarded a Pulitzer for Fiction This Year; Print Industry Saved From Collapse
Congratulations to Adam Johnson, author of North Korean saga The Orphan Master’s Son, which was announced today as the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. (Another hearty congrats to Random House, which published the novel.) Mr. Johnson is preceded by last year’s winner….absolutely no one at all, as 2012 marked the first time in 35 years that the Pulitzer committee decided that no fiction book was worth of the prize. (However, several made it as finalists, including Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King, and Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams.) Read More
