Last April, Rhiannon Giddens visited us at GBH to discuss her new #opera “Omar.” 2 weeks later, Omar won the #Pulitzer Prize for #Music. And in between, we recorded Boston Lyric Opera's production of Omar for WCRB In Concert.

THIS SUNDAY at 7pm, hear Omar on CRB! We are so honored and excited to share this incredible work with you.

@classicalmusic

Here's an excerpt of Giddens’s conversation with Emmett G. Price III, which is available to watch in full on our website: https://bit.ly/3r1ANvE

@JamesGleick. Reading this was like experiencing food poisoning. Increasing sense of nausea with each paragraph read. But so so grateful to #Murphy and #Mierjeski and #Propublica for bringing to the light these gross violations. #Pulitzer

Great Googly Moogly! Out of the few thousand books that I have read in my life, #DemonCopperhead is in the top 10. #BarbaraKingsolver stuck the landing perfectly. The #Pulitzer folks got this one right.

#GreatBooks #ImInLove

A small news site, Mississippi Today, won a #Pulitzer for its Brett Favre scoop. Now it’s unionizing.
#journalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/07/27/mississippi-today-pulitzer-union-andy-lack/

Finished reading Trust by Hernan Diaz.

Have not read a more fascinating book in quite a while. But my taste in literature is uncommon, and I'm known for selecting books that make me think over entertainment alone. It's not a book for everyone.

Still thinking about Trust today: Its several forms and voices, its surfaces, its depths, its philosophical juxtapositions, its psychologies, and the surprising achievement of such a work.

#Bookstodon #Books #Reading #Trust #HernanDiaz #Pulitzer

On this date in 1885, the #statueofliberty arrived in #newyorkcity from #France. Sculpted by Frédéric Bartholdi and supported by a framework designed by Gustave #Eiffel the statue arrived in pieces to be assembled on site. To fund the pedestal, Joseph #pulitzer promised to publish the names of all donors in his #newspaper no matter how small the #donation. $102,000 was raised through Pulitzer’s fundraising scheme. It is a symbol that many of our #american #citizens have forgotten. #nyc

Tributes Pour in for Author Cormac Mccarthy 'A Loss Beyond Measure'

McCarthy was a highly acclaimed and awarded author perhaps best known for works including "All the Pretty Horses," his commercial breakthrough in 1992, and "The Road," which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

His books, which often incorporated dark themes and apocalyptic landscapes, helped propel him to the status of one of the greatest modern American writers.

#Pulitzer #writer

https://www.newsweek.com/tributes-pour-author-cormac-mccarthy-dies-1806435

Like everything else she writes, "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich is brilliant. Set against the backdrop of a Congressional effort to terminate Indian tribes, Erdrich blends romantic comedy, history, and the struggle to find and save one's identity. As always, rich tribal and family histories loom mystically large. #PulitzerPrizeWinner #Pulitzer #Books #Bookstodon #Literature

Il Papa si è alzato dal letto, seduto in poltrona e letto i quotidiani

#perle di #giornalismo proprio

vai di #Pulitzer 🙄

WashPost: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (This haunting 2009 longform story by Gene Weingarten won a #Pulitzer the next year.)

"“Death by hyperthermia” is the official designation. When it happens to young children, the facts are often the same: An otherwise loving and attentive parent one day gets busy, or distracted, or upset, or confused by a change in his or her daily routine, and just... forgets a child is in the car. It happens that way somewhere in the United States 15 to 25 times a year, parceled out through the spring, summer and early fall. The season is almost upon us."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html?itid=sr_1

#safety #cars #children

Today in Labor History May 26, 1937: Henry Ford unleashed his company goons on United Auto Workers organizers at the “Battle of the Overpass” near the River Rouge plant. General Motors and Chrysler signed collective bargaining agreements with the UAW in 1937, but Ford held out until 1942. Ford Motor Co. security guards attacked union organizers and supporters attempting to distribute literature outside the plant. The guards tried to destroy any photos showing the attack. However, a few survived and they inspired the Pulitzer committee to establish a prize for photography.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #union #uaw #HenryFord #scabs #photography #pulitzer

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, from the #Pulitzer award winner author of Evicted, gives a well researched account of poverty in this country, how it is enabled by affluent and how it can eradicated. Brilliant! #bookstodon #BooksofMastodon #books #Poverty

I finished the fantastic #Pulitzer nominated #memoir WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR today in one gulp. It’s the story of Paul Kalanithi, a #neurosurgeon resident who finds out he has terminal cancer in his early 30s and writes about the process of dying over the last few months of his life.

Yes, it’s a sad book, but it is also chock full of revelations on the reality of the surgical profession, #compassion for others and oneself, and finding quality in a life with an expiration date. #GreatBook

This review makes you hungry to read the whole book itself. Henry Threadgill, one of the greatest musicians of our times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/books/review/henry-threadgill-easily-slip-into-another-world.html

#music #jazz #Pulitzer #threadgill #book #nytimes

Read my DNF review of Hernan Diaz's "Trust," in which I attempt to take on this year's highly popular Pulitzer winner about the exploits of a Gilded Age investment tycoon, but realize quickly that this is one of those 21st-century books that takes what should be a sophisticated, nuanced, complex topic and boils it down to the idiot-friendly message "RICH PEOPLE BAD!!!!" https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5556277845

#review #book #trust #HernanDiaz #pulitzer #winner #terrible #obvious #RichPeopleBad

Today in Labor History May 16, 1912: Studs Terkel was born, New York City. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book The Good War, a collection of oral histories from World War II. He was born to Russian-Jewish parents. He joined the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project. This provided him work in radio. He best known for his program, The Studs Terkel Program, which aired on WFMT, Chicago, from 1952-1997. Some of the people he interviewed on this show included: Bob Dylan, Big Bill Broonzy, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Luther King and Tennessee Williams.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #StudsTerkel #union #jewish #pulitzer #radio #books #writer @bookstadon

#Lecture "Invisible Child" d'Andrea Elliott Un des meilleurs livres que j'ai lus cette année. Prix Pulitzer 2022 de la non-fiction, il décrit 8 ans d'une famille noire-américaine et sans-abri à New York. L'autrice revendique un "journalisme immersif" où le récit et les dialogues, toujours mis en contexte avec la politique, prennent aux tripes. La pauvreté est un cercle vicieux dont il est difficile de s'extraire sans l'aide des puissants #book #pulitzer #books #journalism
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/andrea-elliott-0

#BuzzFeed #News to shut down https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/buzzfeed-news-shutting-down-jonah-peretti-00093060 "BuzzFeed News launched in 2011. In 2021, BuzzFeed News won a #Pulitzer Prize and was also named a Pulitzer finalist." That's another news-writing job I won't be getting. Good luck to the laid-off employees. 😔

I thought #BuzzFeed was still doing #clickbait to subsidize their actual #Pulitzer-worthy #journalism

The #MiltonFriedman #ProfitUberAlles mentality strikes again.

#BuzzFeedNews, der mit dem #Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete Nachrichtenzweig von BuzzFeed.com, wird geschlossen, teilte #BuzzFeed-CEO Jonah Peretti am Donnerstag den Mitarbeitern mit.

"Während es in fast allen Abteilungen zu Entlassungen kommt, haben wir festgestellt, dass das Unternehmen BuzzFeed News nicht länger als eigenständige Organisation finanzieren kann", schrieb Peretti in einem Memo

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23691169/buzzfeed-news-shut-down-jonah-peretti-memo