Not since 1977 has the Pulitzer Prize opted to not elect a winner in the fiction category and this year the reasoning is as terse as then.
How come I wonder if everyone is actually thinking 2012 was a bum year for fiction? And, this is where the center of the frustration lies. That's what the final vote came down to. None of the three nominees were deemed worthy which is rather depressing when David Foster Wallace, Karen Russell, and Denis Johnson are in the match.
Read what the jurors had to say here.
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