Do Book Prizes Owe Us a Winner Every Year? A Deep Dive into the Pulitzer Prize Controversy of 2012

With the pending announcement of this year’s Pulitzer Prize, I thought it would be fun to look at the infamous Pulitzer announcement from ten years ago when there were three finalists but no winner was chosen. Why? Let’s find out! Expand for more information 👇

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Links 💻
My full blog post about this: https://supposedlyfun.com/2022/05/05/...
Michael Cunningham’s article about what happened (Part 1): https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...
Michael Cunningham’s article about what happened (Part 2): https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...
Lev Grossman’s article about the lack of a winner: https://entertainment.time.com/2012/0...
PPrize predictions for 2012: http://www.pprize.com/Discussions.php...

Further Viewing 🎥
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1986: Is Lonesome Dove the Great American Novel?    • Is Lonesome Dove the Great American N...  
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Time Stamps ⏰
What Happened? 03:48
The Pulitzer as a Literary Award and its History of Not Selecting a Fiction Prize: 08:03
Why Was This a Big Deal? And How Did it Happen? 13:02
Do Book Prizes Owe Us a Winner Every Year? 19:33
The Finalists: 23:52
Other Contenders Published in 2011: 30:54
What Should Have Won? 33:31

The Finalists 📚
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
Swamplandia!, Karen Russell

Other Options 📚
The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
Open City, Teju Cole
The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
Ten Thousand Saints, Eleanor Henderson
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward

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