Radical black history, grieving loss, and the limits of climate activism: the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners
April 23, 2019
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced and we are very pleased to stock some of the lauded titles.
These books address ever-relevant topics like loss, climate change, and black history with rigorous attention and poignancy.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
National Book Award winner Richard Powers’s twelfth novel is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and...
More InfoThe Overstory, by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)
The Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction:
"An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them."
Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History** Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The...
More InfoFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)
The Pulitzer Prize winner in History:
"A breathtaking history that demonstrates the scope of Frederick Douglass’ influence through deep research on his writings, his intellectual evolution and his relationships."
Be With
Forrest Gander
Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish...
More InfoBe With, Forrest Gander (New Directions)
The Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry:
"A collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss, and the difficulties of expressing grief and yearning for the departed."
