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Anonymous Sat Oct 8 01:14:53 2016 No.8595993 [Reply] [Original]

How the fuck did Oscar Wao win a Pulitzer?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 8 01:15:43 2016 No.8595995 Brownies win the browny

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 8 01:16:52 2016 No.8596001 >>8595993 >Althusser hmm..

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 8 01:21:09 2016 No.8596013 >>8595993 Check out the list meng. Is it any wonder? http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 8 01:26:25 2016 No.8596030 >>8596013 Hmm, perhaps I'm just overvaluing the prize because of its name recognition. Of recent winners, I've read All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, which is total shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 8 01:31:05 2016 No.8596039 Pulitzer is bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 8 01:44:42 2016 No.8596065 The Pulitzer is known for being awarded to mediocre shit. Look up Gass's essay on it. What's really crazy is that he won the MacArthur "genius" grant.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 8 02:15:04 2016 No.8596130 File: 261 KB, 950x758, gass5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8596065 >Gass wrote an essay on how shit the Pulitzer is >It's incredible Is there anything the madman can't do?