What We’re Reading
Every week, Urban’s library leaders bring you great reads from around the web. They may include essays, journalism, humor, multimedia, fiction, and poetry. We hope that these pieces will inform, entertain, resonate, and start conversations.
This week, I am highlighting winners of the Pulitzer Prizes, which were awarded last week.
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Nonfiction
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The Eviction Epidemic
Matthew Desmond
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Winner for General Nonfiction
A masterpiece of storytelling and social justice journalism: “ Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly everyone has a landlord.” Go » |
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Chicago Tribune
Tavon Tanner, a bullet, and what happened on the streets of Chicago
E. Jason Wambsgans
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Winner for Feature Photography
“ He wanted to see the bullet. For weeks, he had felt it, a bump and an ache, lodged just below his left shoulder. Sometimes other kids asked if they could touch it, and he’d say yes, but not too hard.” Go » |
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The New York Times Magazine
The Fighter
C. J. Chivers
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Winner for Feature Writing
The Marine Corps taught Sam Siatta how to shoot. The war in Afghanistan taught him how to kill. Nobody taught him how to come home. Go » |
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Time
Inside the Attica Uprising: A Doctor in D Yard
Heather Ann Thompson
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Winner for History
“Out in the dark, music could be heard – ‘drums, a guitar, vibes, flute, sax, [that] the brothers were playing.’ This was the lightest many of the men had felt since being processed into the maximum security facility.” Go »
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Poetry
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Blind Boone’s Vision
Tyehimba Jess
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Winner for Poetry
“The sound of birdcalls / stirs forests like the black / and white bustling / ‘neath my fingertips.” Go »
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