Comments on: Pulitzer Prize Reality Check — A Review of the 2009 Fiction Winner, Elizabeth Strout’s Short Story Collection, ‘Olive Kitteridge’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/pulitzer-prize-reality-check-a-review-of-the-2009-fiction-winner-elizabeth-strout%e2%80%99s-short-story-collection-%e2%80%98olive-kitteridge%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Sat, 25 May 2013 15:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rprincess http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/pulitzer-prize-reality-check-a-review-of-the-2009-fiction-winner-elizabeth-strout%e2%80%99s-short-story-collection-%e2%80%98olive-kitteridge%e2%80%99/#comment-7393 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:28:29 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=10142#comment-7393 thanks!

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/pulitzer-prize-reality-check-a-review-of-the-2009-fiction-winner-elizabeth-strout%e2%80%99s-short-story-collection-%e2%80%98olive-kitteridge%e2%80%99/#comment-7392 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:05:21 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=10142#comment-7392 My pleasure. Here is an excerpt from All Souls in a format you might find more convenient than Amazon’s http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=1175478. [Sorry, I can't get the preceding link to work as these usually do. You can find a link to an All Souls excerpt at http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/. Use the Search box on that site to search for "All Souls" and you'll find it.]

]]> By: rprincess http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/pulitzer-prize-reality-check-a-review-of-the-2009-fiction-winner-elizabeth-strout%e2%80%99s-short-story-collection-%e2%80%98olive-kitteridge%e2%80%99/#comment-7391 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:31:53 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=10142#comment-7391 Thanks for clearing that up, I just assumed that the judges remained the same at least for several years. hmm, All Souls. I should read the short preview of it on amazon…

- R. Prince

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/pulitzer-prize-reality-check-a-review-of-the-2009-fiction-winner-elizabeth-strout%e2%80%99s-short-story-collection-%e2%80%98olive-kitteridge%e2%80%99/#comment-7390 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:17:33 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=10142#comment-7390 Good question. It’s hard to answer become some Pulitzer winners, like The Stories of John Cheever, have become masterpieces of American literature, and all winners won’t come up to that standard, though I’d love it if they did.

One issue is that the panel of judges changes annually, so the standards vary a lot from one year to the next. You’d like all Pulitzer winners to come up to a certain level, and they generally do in the reporting categories. But that is much less true of books. Sometimes you see more consistency in the National Book Critics Circle Awards (the judges for which have two-year terms and sometimes much longer if they are reelected).

I’m also hoping to review one of the finalists for the Pulitzer for fiction, Christine Schutt’s All Souls, and may have more to say in that review if I can fit it in.
Jan

]]> By: rprincess http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/pulitzer-prize-reality-check-a-review-of-the-2009-fiction-winner-elizabeth-strout%e2%80%99s-short-story-collection-%e2%80%98olive-kitteridge%e2%80%99/#comment-7389 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:01:19 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=10142#comment-7389 Great review. Is it me or is the pulitzer prize committee in the business of giving their awards to subpar books lately? I may just go ahead and give it a try anyway.. it may take me all summer though…

-R. Prince

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