Associated Press finds 'no definitive evidence' to change credit for famous Vietnam War photo
Read full article: Associated Press finds 'no definitive evidence' to change credit for famous Vietnam War photoThe Associated Press says it has found “no definitive evidence” to warrant changing the credit for one of its most famous photographs.
Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts
Read full article: Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the artsPercival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is leaving. He cited Bezos' new editorial policy
Read full article: Longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is leaving. He cited Bezos' new editorial policyPulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson says he is leaving the Washington Post.
He is credited with one of history's most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it
Read full article: He is credited with one of history's most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took itIt's one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War — an Associated Press photograph of a young girl running naked down a street after being caught in a napalm attack.
San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
Read full article: San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photoA block in downtown San Francisco has been renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during WWII.
Adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ‘Nickel Boys’ to open New York Film Festival this fall
Read full article: Adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ‘Nickel Boys’ to open New York Film Festival this fall“Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in September, organizers said Monday.
AP wins the best-documentary prize at the BAFTA awards for Ukraine film '20 Days in Mariupol'
Read full article: AP wins the best-documentary prize at the BAFTA awards for Ukraine film '20 Days in Mariupol'The Associated Press has won the best documentary prize at the British Academy Film Awards for Ukraine war documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.”.
'The Righteous,' an opera set among American Southwest church communities, to premiere in 2024
Read full article: 'The Righteous,' an opera set among American Southwest church communities, to premiere in 2024The Santa Fe Opera will present the world premiere of “The Righteous” by composer Gregory Spears with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K.
Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz win fiction Pulitzer Prizes
Read full article: Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz win fiction Pulitzer PrizesThe Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to two class-conscious novels: “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver’s modern recasting of the Dickens classic “David Copperfield,” and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” an innovative narrative of wealth and deceit set in 1920s New York.
Retired AP photographer Ut gives pope 'Napalm Girl' photo
Read full article: Retired AP photographer Ut gives pope 'Napalm Girl' photoRetired Associated Press photographer Nick Ut has met with Pope Francis and gave him a copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a young Vietnamese girl running naked down the road after a napalm attack.
Joni Mitchell, Amy Tan, N. Scott Momaday join arts academy
Read full article: Joni Mitchell, Amy Tan, N. Scott Momaday join arts academyJoni Mitchell has received honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the century old institution where general inductees have ranged from Henry James and Georgia O’Keeffe to Sonny Rollins and Jasper Johns.
Sales soar for 'Maus' after its banning in Tennessee
Read full article: Sales soar for 'Maus' after its banning in TennesseeJust days after the banning of “Maus” by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic story about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.
Holocaust novel 'Maus' banned in Tennessee school district
Read full article: Holocaust novel 'Maus' banned in Tennessee school districtA Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman.
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Lawrence Wright's 'The Plague Year' to release in June
Read full article: Lawrence Wright's 'The Plague Year' to release in JuneFILE - Lawrence Wright attends the Hulu 2017 Upfront Presentation on May 3, 2017, in New York. One of the first book-length inside accounts of the worldwide spread of COVID-19 will be coming out in June. Wright's "The Plague Year," which builds on a New Yorker story that ran earlier this month, will be published June 8. Lawrence Wright's “The Plague Year," which builds on a New Yorker story that ran earlier this month, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 8. He is still working on his new book, which he expects will end with the incoming administration of President Joe Biden.
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NYT's Maggie Haberman has deal for Trump book
Read full article: NYT's Maggie Haberman has deal for Trump bookNEW YORK – One of the top chroniclers of the Trump administration, New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman, has a book deal. Penguin Press announced Thursday that the Pulitzer Prize winner's book, currently untitled, would come out in 2022. “Maggie Haberman’s book will be an instant classic, a definitive and fascinating account of Donald Trump, his life and his presidency," Penguin vice president and publisher Scott Moyers said in a statement . Haberman was represented by the Javelin literary agency, whose other clients include former FBI Director James Comey and former National Security Advisor John Bolton. In 2017, Haberman and fellow Times reporter Glenn Thrush reached an agreement with Random House for a book on Trump, but the deal fell through after Thrush was accused by several women of sexual harassment.
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Celebrities unite to various get-out-the-vote efforts
Read full article: Celebrities unite to various get-out-the-vote effortsThis combination photo shows Justin Bieber, from left, Dua Lipa and Demi Lovato who will take part in various planned events urging Americans to vote. (AP Photo)NEW YORK – In the final days before the U.S. election, celebrities from Kerry Washington to Billie Jean King and Danai Gurira are urging Americans to vote. — The hourlong “Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy” will be hosted by Alicia Keys, America Ferrera and Kerry Washington. — The NFL's voting campaign includes Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll and quarterback Russell Wilson, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle and Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley. There's also an “Latinos Vote” extension campaign with NFL legends and celebrities encouraging the Latino community to vote that includes Victor Cuz, Roberto Garza and Wilmer Valderrama.
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Social media experts
Read full article: Social media expertsTulsi started as an enterprise reporter at KPRC2 in 2019. She specializes in in-depth storytelling, going beyond the breaking headlines to provide context and understanding. She previously worked at the Houston Chronicle and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize finalist team for their coverage of Hurricane Harvey.
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Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead
Read full article: Library of Congress to honor author Colson WhiteheadNEW YORK Colson Whitehead keeps winning awards. Already this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honored by the Library of Congress. On Monday, it announced that he had won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Whitehead, 50, is the youngest winner of the lifetime achievement prize, which the library has previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Denis Johnson, among others. He is the first author to win Pulitzers for consecutive works of fiction The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, for which he won in April.
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Oprah, Lionsgate to help adapt The 1619 Project for film, TV
Read full article: Oprah, Lionsgate to help adapt The 1619 Project for film, TVOprah Winfrey and Lionsgate are partnering with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to adapt the The New York Times recent project examining the legacy of slavery for film and television. Lionsgate said Wednesday that it will work alongside The 1619 Project architect Hannah-Jones to develop a multi-media history of slavery and its effects in America for a worldwide audience. The 1619 Project launched in August 2019 in an issue of The New York Times Magazine to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the American continent. Hannah-Jones will be a creative leader and producer in developing films, TV series, documentaries and more inspired by the reporting. The 1619 Project is also being adapted into a series of books.
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