Brace yourself for literary controversy. The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes for books and more will be named on Monday, May 5, at 3 p.m. EST.

Even a Simon & Schuster editor thinks a Penguin Random House book, "James," will win the fiction prize. But what if it doesn't? I respond in a post for paid subscribers to Jansplaining:

#books #PulitzerPrizes #James #PercivalEverett #literature

https://jansplaining.substack.com/p/letter-from-a-reader-5425

Letter from a Reader 5.4.25

Pulitzer lunacy, Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery,' and the New York Times Book Review squanders more of its credibility

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