Pulitzers 2006
Some interesting winners, including a Kiwi, in the US Pulitzer Prizes just announced. The Washington Post won one for its Abramoff corruption scandal investigation and another for its report on US secret "black site" prisons. The New York Times won for its scoop about domestic spying, which no doubt will be solace to the paper's reporters and editors when they are sent to jail for treason, as some bloggers fantasize.Kiwi snapper Melanie Burford, was among the Dallas Morning News photo crew that took an award.
March by Geraldine Brooks won the fiction prize and interestingly there was no award for drama. The late great jazzman Thelonious Monk (pictured on piano) was given a special citation.
posted by Rob O'Neill at 7:48 PM
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Thelonius Monk deserves every award possible, but he died in 1982. That's 24 years ago. What on earth is the point of a citation now? Why not give Mozart one while they're at it?
I saw him (Monk, not Mozart) perform in the Tauranga Girls' College assembly hall in the 60s. I thought he was fantastic but god knows what he made of Tauranga.
Spookily, I was back there for Easter when the jazz festival was in full swing, and outside Alimento, an excellent cafe in Second Avenue, there was a young band attempting to batter his "Well You Needn't" into submission. It survived, just.
thelonious Monk? Tauranga?
In the same place and time?
IN THE SAME FUCKING SENTENCE???
My brain just broke.
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