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New York Times, Los Angeles Times Among 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced recently, with The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times both earning two awards....  read more

Hank Williams Honored by Columbia University

Hank WIlliams pioneered the country-music confessional with songs like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and “Your Cheating Heart,” creating a lasting impact on American popular music. Now, he’s joining the likes of American music icons Bob Dylan and John Coltrane in receiving a Pulitzer Prize from the journalism school at Columbia University, ABC News reports....  read more

Alex Ross brings the paperback Noise

Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, recently became a 2008 MacArthur "Genius" fellow. The fellowship came about a year after The Rest is Noise, his 20th-century study of music history, won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and took finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Picador has just released The Rest is Noise in paperback, and to mark the occasion, Ross added a number of complementary, interactive features to his website....  read more