LoLT: 1917 Pulitzer Prize and Two New Books

In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh and The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoíse Mac Sweeney. Then Mel shares the highlights of the first Pulitzer Prize winners.

LINKS

The Tumbling Girl by Bridge Walsh

The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Pulitzer Prize website

All the winners organized by year.

Herbert Bayard Swope’s Wikipedia page

See photos of his mansion on Long Island here and here.

Julia Ward Howe’s Wikipedia page.

Josef Pulitzer and the Crowdfunding Campaign That Saved the Statue of Liberty.

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An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee

_Less: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer

Middlesex: A Novel_ by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Shipping News: A Novel by Annie Proulx

So Big by Edna Ferber

Transcript of this episode.

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