1.0 link 46093 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-oppenheimer/great-books-the-pulitzers_b_46093.html The announcement of the Pulitzer Prize winners yesterday filled me with a certain amount of glee--my fellow New Havener Debby Applegate won the award for her biography of Henry Ward Beecher--while leaving me, at the same time, with the usual mixed feelings. It's always great to see talent recognized, and yet, as at the Oscars or the Grammys, there's an abiding sense that so much talent is ignored. After all, the only books that stand a chance are books that get some review attention, and with book-review sections shrinking (the...

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