Comments on: Junot Diaz Wins Pulitzer for ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/junot-diaz-wins-pulitzer-for-the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/junot-diaz-wins-pulitzer-for-the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao/#comment-5967 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:03:59 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=911#comment-5967 Good question. To most people, they probably don’t.

But they can steer you to great books you might not otherwise have found. And you could argue that that’s especially important now that so many publications have dropped their book sections (so that people are getting more information about books from advertising instead of reviews). Respected prizes like Pulitzers — judged by journalists — can be an antidote to some of the overheated ads …

]]> By: paisleyandplaid http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/junot-diaz-wins-pulitzer-for-the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao/#comment-5966 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:31:20 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=911#comment-5966 Haven’t read it, but I plan to. Do things like Pulitzer Prizes still matter to most people?

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