At The New York Times, Anne Patchett reflects on the Pulitzer’s failure to give a fiction award, and her disappointment as a writer, reader, and bookseller.
“The winners are written up in papers and talked about on the radio, and sometimes, at least on PBS stations, they make it onto television. This in turn gives the buzz that is so often lacking in our industry — Did you hear about that book?”
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