Three were finalists but no book was chosen this year.
The big news from the Pulitzers Prizes is the award that was not given. The Pulitzer committee didn't hand out a prize for fiction this year -- the first time this has happened in 35 years, according to the Christian Science Monitor. A three-member fiction jury picked these finalists: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell and The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. But the Pulitzer Board actually decides who receives the awards, and Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes Sig Gissler told the Associated Press that none of the nominees received a majority from the Pulitzer board. Very irksome for the fiction jury. Have you read any of these novels? Of the three, which would you have picked? Did you read another book not …
Jedwin Smith is running an eight-week writer's workshop at Eagle Eye Book Shop; he helps students get published
Author Jedwin Smith is a treasure hunter. While researching his critically-acclaimed book about the Atocha, a sunken Spanish galleon, Smith dove to the shipwreck to help recover gold and emeralds. He's currently working on a Civil War novel about a general's lost diary that would be worth a fortune if it were discovered today. And for eight-week workshops throughout the year at Decatur's Eagle Eye Book Shop, Smith uncovers treasure in the work of aspiring writers. "That's the beauty of it, to watch somebody who can't write a lick and you prod them, push them, edit them, talk civilly to them, encourage them and pump them up," he said. "Then you see the light go on." In two years, Smith has had three of his students published and eight or …
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