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And the Pulitzers Went To...

A full list of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners follows. A few surprises in there: did we know that Bob Dylan got a Special Citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power"? And that the Editorial Writing award went to... no one? More »

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This is What a Pulitzer-Winning Article Looks Like

We brought this Washington Post article by Gene Weingarten, about violin virtuoso Joshua Bell busking unsuccessfully in a DC subway, to your attention before. And now we're doing it again, because it won a Pulitzer for feature writing. Excerpt follows. More »