Who fell for it? An eminent Dickens biographer and (more than once) The New York Times, among others.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son Wins Pulitzer For Fiction
“The Pulitzer Prize in fiction, announced Monday, has been awarded to Adam Johnson for his book set in North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son. … Sharon Olds won the poetry award for her collection Stag’s Leap.”
Drama Pulitzer Goes To Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
The play, “about a corporate lawyer who has hidden his Pakistani Muslim heritage … was produced last year by Lincoln Center Theater in New York, with Comedy Central’s The Daily Show veteran Aasif Mandvi in the lead role. The play had its world premiere in January 2012 at Chicago’s American Theater Company.”
Granta‘s 20 Young British Novelists For The ’10s
“For the first time there is a majority of women. It is also an extremely international list: the writers’ backgrounds – and storytelling interests – include China, Nigeria, Ghana, the US, Bangladesh and Pakistan.”
Philip Kennicott Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“Kennicott, 47, won the award – considered journalism’s highest honor – for articles assessing a photographic exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery, an architect’s work at the National Building Museum and an essay on graphic and violent photographic images, among others.”
Caroline Shaw’s Partita For 8 Voices Takes Pulitzer Prize For Music
“The 26-minute four-movement work composed between 2009-2012 was recorded by the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth for New Amsterdam Records (released on October 30, 2012).”
Cultural Tourism Is Not A Quick Fix For A Place’s Ills
“It’s not simply a new style of marketing, nor is it a case of saying the same thing but in a different way. … For starters, this approach requires a brutally honest appraisal of that collective cultural offer – everything from exhibition programmes to public transport, the public realm and places to stay.”
Buenos Aires’s Historic Architecture In Danger Despite Landmark Status
“In many neighborhoods, city code has been flouted, and historic buildings have been demolished at astonishing speed since Argentina’s economic collapse in 2001.”
Campaign To Save Istanbul’s Oldest Art Deco Movie Palace
“It is Turkey’s oldest and most prestigious cinema, an Istanbul landmark that dates back to the early days of Atatürk’s rule – and a centrepiece until recently of the city’s international film festival. So plans to demolish the Emek theatre and turn the space into an entertainment and shopping venue have generated widespread disapproval.”
Zao Wou-Ki, 92, Considered China’s First Master Of Abstract Art
Having gone to Paris to study in 1948 and settled there following the revolution of 1949, Zou went on to become an integral part of France’s modern art scene. By 2011, he had become the top-selling Chinese artist.