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#pulitzer-prize

If I live to be 100 - make that 200 - I dare say I will never read a lead from a Pulitzer Prize-winning story as out there (or in there) as the one I am about to share.The writer, book critic Andrea Long Chu for New York magazine , wrote the lead while trying to make sense of the scatological imagination of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh , known for her physical and metaphysical explorations of the human body and all the waste it produces.

Kendrick Lamar is returning to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this summer along with headliners Foo Fighters and electronic duo Odesza.
he Foo Fighters were supposed to headline the festival in 2021 but the festival was cancelled because of flooding.The rock band will return to touring in 2023 after the sudden death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last March during a South American tour.

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Kendrick Lamar is returning to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this summer along with headliners Foo Fighters and electronic duo ODESZA.The Foo Fighters were supposed to headline the festival in 2021, but the festival was canceled because of flooding.

Rick Kogan | Chicago Tribune (TNS) The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.You will meet this man in all his ferocity, style, audacity and courage in a spectacular new book, a dynamic and unforgettable collaboration between artist Youssef Daoudi and writer Adrian Matejka.

Reading while you ride is just one of the benefits of taking BART, and that's why we've launched One Book, One BART - our first ever book club for riders!The book club will feature a constellation of happenings - an author talk, a train read-in, and more.We intend to host two clubs a year, in Spring and Winter.

This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb.Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, has died at age 92.

The cast of Some Like It Hot.Marc J. Franklin/Some Like It Hot The musical Some Like It Hot a theatrical remake of the 1959 Billy Wilder movie musical garnered 13 Tony nominations, the most in a season that saw many new plays and musicals take the stage.This year's musical theater nominations made a little bit of history: J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell are the first nonbinary actors to be nominated for Tony Awards.

Barbara Kingsolver says she is happy that her readers will follow her wherever I go in a literary way after winning the Women's Prize for Fiction for a second time, becoming the first author to do so.The US novelist, 68, said lightning had struck twice after being announced as the winner of the prestigious prize and the achievement was a validation of her Appalachian roots.

Image Donald Trump at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, after his arraignment.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami yesterday to criminal charges that he risked disclosure of defense secrets and obstructed the government's efforts to reclaim classified documents he took while leaving office.

Kimberly Akimbo, a small-scale, big-hearted show about a teenage girl coping with a life-shortening genetic condition and a comically dysfunctional family, won the coveted Tony Award for best musical Sunday night.The award came at the close of an unusual Tony Awards ceremony that almost didn't happen because of the ongoing screenwriters' strike.

Bad Cinderella, a revisionist riff on the classic fairy tale, will close on June 4, bringing to an end, at least for the time being, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's 43-year-long streak of shows on Broadway.The latest musical, which opened March 23, was not the pinnacle of that career it was greeted on Broadway by hostile reviews, garnered zero Tony nominations and struggled at the box office.

One of the UK's foremost artistic directors is standing down from the Kiln theatre after more than a decade of bringing politically and culturally diverse voices to the stage.Indhu Rubasingham has been the artistic director of the Kiln theatre in north London since 2012 and became the first woman of colour to run a big London theatre.

Bombshell, screamed The Federalist in all capital letters.A treasonous charade, former President Donald J. Trump declared.Who should go to jail? demanded Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.A report by the special counsel John H. Durham on the origins of the F.B.I.'s investigation into the Trump campaign's work with Russia recommended no further prosecutions, produced no startling revelations and declined to suggest any wholesale changes to F.B.I. rules for politically sensitive investigations.

Writer Hernan Diaz in Brooklyn Heights, New York.Pascal Perich Argentine writer Hernan Diaz has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, along with U.S. novelist Barbara Kingsolver.Diaz won the award for his novel Trust, which is set between 1920 and 1930, and focuses on the role money plays in human relationships.

Dan Snyder is reportedly big mad at the Washington Post for its ongoing reporting on the Washington Commanders' many-splendored scandals-so much so that he is allegedly stiff-arming potential team buyer and Post owner Jeff Bezos.When it comes to shooting the messenger, however, the embattled Commanders owner might want to save some of his ire for ESPN.

Music
9:30 Club | February 27

Los Angeles folk-pop singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, who performs as Weyes Blood, will bring her otherworldly melodies to DC. Expect to hear a collection of love songs and hymns from her fifth album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.Comedy
DAR Constitution Hall | February 14

Veteran DC radio host Joe Clair and a squad of funny people gather for a night of Valentine's joke-telling.

Irish singer-songwriter 's unreal voice will take you to church on his Unreal Unearth tour this fall.Edgefield has added indie folk favorites My Morning Jacket and Gregory Alan Isakov to its summer concert schedule.Plus, the long-awaited lineup has been announced, with headliners including Lee Fields, Dehd, and Madison Cunningham.

Lewis Spratlan won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music for a chunk of an opera that he had completed in 1978 and that no one had ever staged.Then he waited another decade before someone actually put the full opera in front of an audience.It was awful, not hearing this piece, he told The New York Times in 2010, when his long wait was about to come to an end.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, March 13-19.Details and times are subject to change.Paul Newman, left, and Robert Redford in The Sting.Credit...Universal Pictures THE STING (1973) 8 p.m. on TCM.

At a time when public libraries and librarians are facing budget headwinds and sometimes intense political scrutiny for the roles they play in their communities, the Times photo editor Erica Ackerberg last fall dispatched photographers to seven libraries in cities, suburbs and rural areas across the country to document what daily life in those public institutions really looks like in today's world.

Books "The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science," by Kate Zernike (Scribner)Kate Zernike's book is a inspiring but often infuriating account of the ways that MIT had discriminated against some of the brightest scientists in their fields.Kate Zernike had been covering higher education at The Boston Globe for about six months when she was tipped off to a major story: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was about to admit to years of gender discrimination against female faculty members.

Last fall, I was the keynote speaker at the North Dakota Library Association's annual conference.The theme was Libraries: The Place For Everyone.There were rainbow flags, paper-link chains and multicolored glitter scattered across tables.It was the safest I have ever felt back home as an out, gay man.

As the Los Angeles Times' letters editor, Julie Ryan Green saw every type of reader missive imaginable.The letters to the editor - hundreds each day - were short and cheeky, long and angry.They were emailed, snail-mailed and faxed.And they were mostly from the guys.When The Times expanded its letters section in 2006, Green posed the question: "Most of our mail, by the way, comes from men.

Rahsaan Thomas was released from San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday, more than year after he was granted a commutation from Gov. Gavin Newsom for his rehabilitation behind bars, including his work for the Pulitzer Prize-nominated "Ear Hustle" podcast.Thomas' supporters had advocated for his release for years.