One book by an ex-employee and another edited by her ex-husband. That speaks to the integrity she's known for.

Modern fiction is thoroughly drenched in left-wing self-righteous crap because you can't attend the Iowa workshops or get published by the Manhattan book houses unless you share their politics. You want fiction? Obama's supposed competence and leadership is a good start.

Or every other novel is about losing a child, a wife, overcoming adversity, your character's terminal illness, healing the character's inner pain...blah, blah blah. What drivel. Take away the keyboards and lock them up.
Modern poetry is even worse.

They should discontinue these awards until the Left loses their lock on the universities and the media conglomerates.

I have just read the comment from "Uneasy Ann" and to me it was the saddest words I have ever read. "wasted hours spent reading useless fiction". Which kind of fiction? It might be the reason it does nothing for her; it did not nourish her or her imagination, brighten her days. It might even be the reason why there was no Pulitzer fiction prize this year. It really is a pity.

Thanks for plugging your book, Ben Lerner!

Maybe the Pulitzer judges are tired of people who own bookstores but have no literary insight or expertise promoting schlock as if it had the remotest  literary value, and then being featured regularly on what passes for good public radio these days.  "The most exciting voice writing in America right now." Go pick on some other artistic realm, please!

I'd recommend "The Disharmonic Misadventures of David Stein" by Jonathan L. Segal.
A funny, far-out musical mystery.
A bungling jazz musician gets caught in a wild world of mystery and intrigue.
Okay, so I wrote it. It still kills me every time I read it!
Jonathan

I really adored both The Art of Fielding and The Tragedy of Arthur this year.

Teju Cole's Open City was fantastic too.

IQ84 By Murakami. It was a work of art, brilliantly written, great and origional story it had everything even the book cover was beautiful.

Fiction is a pack of lies by definition. Why do so many people waste so much time and money on packs of lies? Real life is so much stranger and more fascinating than most fiction, IMO.

I would have recommended The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson.
Incredible story, I thought it was well written.
and maybe most importantly, incredibly enlightening on North Korea.

The Ryan Budget. First class fiction, that.

I haven't read a book of fiction in years. How shameful is that? I used to go to the BPL around the corner weekly, years ago, and borrow many books - fiction mostly. Today, I can't remember the last time I walked into a library let alone, opened a book of fiction. Now I read books relating directly to what I do for a living. Likewise my time spent online caters to my profession.
Where the hell would I be today without clocking in all those "wasted" hours spent reading "useless" fiction, but for a myriad of reasons, I just don't read today and I know it's impacting me in ways I don't understand.
Perhaps an uneasy shift is taking hold on modern society as a whole, and the Pulitzer move reflects this. Can't say for certain.