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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In 1974, no Pulitzer was awarded. Though the fiction jury unanimously selected the novel Gravity's Rainbow for the Prize, the Pulitzer Advisory Board overruled them—calling the book "unreadable," "turgid," and "obscene"—and opted to award no fiction prize that year.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

TBH, I'm kind of with the advisory board on that one.