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Melissa Gouty
Oct 25 min read
Who Can You Believe? Read the Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Novel, TRUST, by Hernan Diaz
By the end of the book, you trust no one and yet have an understanding of the influence the stock market wielded in the early 1900s.
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Melissa Gouty
May 93 min read
My Bold Prediction Was Wrong! Night Watch Takes the Pulitzer for Fiction, 2024
Jayne Anne Phillips' novel, Night Watch, takes the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...(Even though I was sure it would be North Woods!
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Melissa Gouty
Mar 44 min read
One Bold Prediction: North Woods Will Win the 2024 Pulitzer for Fiction
Daniel Mason's North Woods is an inventive, mesmerizing, riveting romp through history and my pic to win the 2024 Pulitzer for fiction.
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Melissa Gouty
Feb 284 min read
How to Be a Great Writer: 4 Powerful Insights from Marilynne Robinson
Whether you need justification, motivation, or inspiration, writers will benefit from these four powerful insights from Marilyn Robinson.
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Melissa Gouty
Jan 36 min read
How Brooks' Novel MARCH Uses Little Women as a Springboard to a Pulitzer
Geraldine Brooks', MARCH, 2006 Pulitzer-Prize winner fiction-winner examines the impact of war on the father of the Little Women we know.
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Melissa Gouty
Dec 9, 20224 min read
Read It and Weep: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver's novel, Demon Copperhead, is a painful but important novel, destined to be a classic and a 2022 Pulitzer nominee.
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Melissa Gouty
Feb 25, 20216 min read
Need Spiritual Sustenance? Read the Novel, Gilead, to See the Power of Faith
Gilead is a tribute to the skill of a writer who created a literary work that is readable, relatable, and wondrous all at the same time.
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Melissa Gouty
Oct 22, 20204 min read
The Overstory: An Epic Tale of Our Relationship with Trees
The best in environmental fiction, Richard Powers' The Overstory depicts the intertwined destiny of humans and trees.
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