The Pulitzer Prize has announced its winners in a variety of categories, and while our Fishbowl siblings will be dissecting the journalism winners, we’ll look at the book-related winners:

FICTION: Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD (Knopf)

HISTORY: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, THE RACE BEAT (Knopf)

BIOGRAPHY: Debby Applegate, THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA (Doubleday)

GENERAL NONFICTION: Lawrence Wright, THE LOOMING TOWER (Knopf)

POETRY: Natasha Trethewey, NATIVE GUARD (Houghton Mifflin)

The upshot is that some of the smaller university presses should be proud, the big winners were Knopf, FSG and the Penguin Press – and about the only prize Cormac McCarthy hasn’t earned is beatification, but who knows, that may follow in due course…