In 2018, hours after Andrew Sean Greer won a Pulitzer Prize for Less, I got him on the phone in Italy and asked if he was surprised.
“Oh, come on,” he shot back. “Everyone was surprised!”
True.
Not that we were disappointed — not at all. But there was an abiding sense, sure as death, that serious honors were reserved for serious books. A great comic novel, even one as great as Less, might attend the tournament, but decorum dictated that it should remain seated quietly in the stands.
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