By now, anyone who gives a damn already knows there’s no Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year, despite some exceptionally strong finalist choices: Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and The Pale King, the late David Foster Wallace's last unfinished novel. The Pulitzer Prize Board announced its decision on Monday and since then there's been no end of angry editorializing from book critics, publishers, sellers—not to mention the jurors themselves, who had to read something like 300 books before submitting their recommendations.
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