Pearls Before Breakfast (2007)

Re:Pearls Before Breakfast (2007) by tunesmith on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:35AM (#7742362)

Gene Weingarten is an amazing writer. He won a Pulitzer for this article in 2008. He won one other Pulitzer in 2010, for his (very harrowing) article about parents who forget their children in the back seat of their car.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...

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Re:Pearls Before Breakfast (2007) by oneiric on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:53AM (#7742405)

I don't know much about Pulitzers, but I'm shocked by this. I thought this piece was terrible. Maybe the people who award Pulitzers are into symphonic music.

Specifically I thought the writing had a forced enthusiasm. I think the whole premise is dull and obvious. I really didn't like the philosophical allusions. And I like classical music, DFW essays (long, poetic), and philosophy.

Maybe I'll check out what it was up against...

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2008-Feature-Writing

Fellow finalists (seem equally boring): Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Thomas Curwen of the Los Angeles Times for his vivid account of a grizzly bear attack and the recovery of the two victims, and Kevin Vaughan of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo., for his sensitive retelling of a school bus and train collision at a rural crossing in 1961 that killed 20 children.

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