Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son — a novel about a North Korean outcast turned model citizen — has won the 2013 Fiction Pulitzer. (The other finalists were What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander and The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.) Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar won for Drama; Gilbert King's Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America took home the Non-Fiction prize; and Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds was awarded the Poetry Prize. Congratulations to the winners, and to literature in general for getting its Pulitzer back.
- 4/15/2013
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
If only more writers were like the poet Sharon Olds and realised that discretion is better than endless revelation
The poems in Stag's Leap, the collection that has just won Sharon Olds the Ts Eliot prize, were written years ago, but not published until much later. The delay, Olds has explained, was to protect her family. The poems document the end of her 32-year marriage, when her husband left for another woman, and Olds promised her children not to write about it for "at least 10 years". In the end, it was 15; the collection came out last autumn.
Although the children must be middle aged now and the husband has not, some readers may conclude, done very much to merit such delicacy about his feelings, Olds remains protective. Last week, for instance, she was reluctant to elaborate on her ex's reaction to eventual publication. "It seems to me bad enough to...
The poems in Stag's Leap, the collection that has just won Sharon Olds the Ts Eliot prize, were written years ago, but not published until much later. The delay, Olds has explained, was to protect her family. The poems document the end of her 32-year marriage, when her husband left for another woman, and Olds promised her children not to write about it for "at least 10 years". In the end, it was 15; the collection came out last autumn.
Although the children must be middle aged now and the husband has not, some readers may conclude, done very much to merit such delicacy about his feelings, Olds remains protective. Last week, for instance, she was reluctant to elaborate on her ex's reaction to eventual publication. "It seems to me bad enough to...
- 1/20/2013
- by Catherine Bennett
- The Guardian - Film News
First of all, my little ghostbusters and mutant plants, I'll stop nicknaming you only when my tube of Love Spackle runs dry. So. . .not any time soon. Also, I realized after I wrote it that today's headline might give you the impression that Rick Moranis had shuffled off this mortal coil. This is not the case. He's just been retired forever and I miss him. More on that later. First, some of that serious, hard-hitting linkage you've come to expect from me.
Have I made my desperate love for Jurassic Park plain? If I have, you won't be surprised when I tell you that this nearly hour-long clip of the famous John Williams theme (a film score Is real music, haters) slowed down 1,000% made me very, very happy. And I played it a few times last night. So here it is, hold on to your butts. (Geekologie)
Have you met the gorgeous,...
Have I made my desperate love for Jurassic Park plain? If I have, you won't be surprised when I tell you that this nearly hour-long clip of the famous John Williams theme (a film score Is real music, haters) slowed down 1,000% made me very, very happy. And I played it a few times last night. So here it is, hold on to your butts. (Geekologie)
Have you met the gorgeous,...
- 2/1/2011
- by Joanna Robinson
Did you all miss me for my stutter-step week? I know I said I was going to take next week off, not last week, but a) I don't think anyone reads that italics block at the end of these already-lengthy posts and b) I forgot Again how hard it is to do things back-to-back without at least one week for some more substantial thing pre-loading. So much Thing talk. Did you see my The Thing Comic Con video by the way? I'll also be back later in the week to give you guys a quick look into Red before it opens this weekend. But Wowee-wow-wow is this 6 Things W/Da7e choc-full of great content. Audio, video, pictures of butts! Damn! [The Con Floor] New York Comic Con is just another one of those Javits Center events I end up seeing costumed people at. And I mean that with the highest degree of...
- 10/11/2010
- LRMonline.com
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