By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Apr 12, 2010, at 5:02 PM Updated on 4/12 at 5:02 PM
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Kitty Roberts, who has guided Tulsa's American Theatre Company since its inception, has been named the recipient of the Mary ...
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The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes in the Arts were announced Monday, with the fiction prize catching a lot of people by surprise.
"Tinkers" by Paul Harding, published by the small Bellevue Literary Press, is the first "small-press" novel to win the prize since "A Confederacy of Dunces" did in 1981.
Harding's novel was not one of the thousands of recently published books that came to the Tulsa World, but just to go by the austere cover and the prominent endorsement by Marilynne Robinson, it's very likely we would have given the book more than a passing glance.
That is one of the problems of doing the things I do for the Tulsa World -- there is so much that is worthy of attention, in performances, in visual arts, in books -- and so little space in the newspaper and so little time in my day to treat everything with the consideration all and sundry deserve.
As for the other Pulitzers -- Oklahoma City native Blake Bailey was a nominee in the Biography category for his "Cheever: A Life," while Jennifer Higdon, who was the composer in residence for OK Mozart in 2008, won the Music prize for her Violin Concerto.
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