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Tag Archives: Pulitzer Prize
Writing God’s Life
Jack Miles provides an overview of his new book, God: A Biography, which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for biography. In it, he contemplates the life of the Divinity as expressed through a variety of epic roles, from creator to destroyer to friend of the family. The result, according to The New York Times, is a scintillating work of literary scholarship that will forever color, if not downright alter, our perception of the Bible as a work of art.
New Southerners Part 13
Robert Butler talks about his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.
Historicals Companions
John Garraty discusses The Reader’s Companion to American History (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991). Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses A Midwife’s Tale (Vintage Books, 1991), her Pulitzer Prize winning account of medicine, healing, and culture in revolutionary America.
African Americans Part 3; Commentary on Toni Morrison’s Fiction
Toni Morrison discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved, and the teaching of African-American literature.
Trudier Harris offers commentary on Toni Morrison’s fiction.
The Value of Poetry
James Applewhite and Richard Wilbur read from their work and discuss poetry and values. Applewhite’s recent books include River Writing and Lessons in Soaring. Wilbur’s New and Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989.
Highest Thoughts
Rita Dove and Helen Vendler discuss Rita Dove’s earlier work, her Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah (1986), and her current project, a sequence of poems entitled D_rer’s Beauty.?
Story and Song
Eudora Welty sits for an interview at the National Humanities Center
Helen Vendler‘s recent books include Voices and Visions: American Poets (Random House) and The Music of What Happens: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (Harvard University Press).
Eudora Welty‘s recent books include One Writer’s Beginnings (Warner Books, 1985).
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The Case of Animal Rights
Do animals have rights? To what extent do animals participate in the human moral community? How should humankind view its ethical relationship to animals? Those questions are central to Tom Regan‘s book, The Case for Animal Rights, published in 1983 by the University of California Press and nominated that year for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Journalism and Literature Part 1
C. Hugh Holman, Vermont C. Royster, and Edwin Yoder discuss the similarities and the disparities between journalism and literature. They describe the common roots shared by journalism and literary artistry, noting that both attempt to create records of events – some reliable, some others deliberately unreliable. Providing examples of noteworthy writers whose careers began in journalism, the discussion turns to qualities in style and convention that differentiate journalism and literature and that ensure their aesthetic endurance or journalistic accuracy.
At the time of this interview, Holman was Kenan Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; he was a Trustee of the National Humanities Center. Royster was editor emeritus of The Wall Street Journal and also a Trustee of the Center. Yoder was a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Writers’ Group and later a Trustee of the Center.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.