Pulitzer on the Road

An interview between Barbara Kingsolver, 2023 Prize winner for Fiction [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/barbara-kingsolver], and Emily Ramshaw of The 19th [https://19thnews.org/author/emily-ramshaw/], on Kingsolver’s farm in Appalachia, about growing up in Appalachia, her life as a writer, and the unforgettable narrator she created in her novel, Demon Copperhead [http://barbarakingsolver.net/books/demon-copperhead/].  To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit: https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-barbara-kingsolver-appalachia [https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-barbara-kingsolver-appalachia]

Hundreds of migrant parents and children were separated at the US-Mexico border under a Trump administration policy. Caitlin Dickerson [https://www.caitlindickersonjournalist.com/], staff writer for The Atlantic, [https://www.theatlantic.com/] won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/caitlin-dickerson-atlantic] She visits El Paso and talks with Ginger Thompson of ProPublica [https://www.propublica.org/people/ginger-thompson]. To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit:  https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-caitlin-dickerson-border [https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-caitlin-dickerson-border]

Hernan Diaz [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/hernan-diaz], 2023 Fiction winner, meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/viet-thanh-nguyen], a Pulitzer board member and himself a previous Fiction winner, in a New York Gilded Age mansion to discuss Trust, Diaz’s novel that explores family, wealth and ambition. To read the transcript and more about this episode, visit: https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-hernan-diaz-and-viet-thanh-nguyen-conversation [https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-hernan-diaz-and-viet-thanh-nguyen-conversation]

Jefferson Cowie [https://www.jeffersoncowie.info/]’s book Freedom’s Dominion [https://www.jeffersoncowie.info/freedom-s-dominion] gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for History [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jefferson-cowie]. In Eufaula, Alabama, he meets with Kelly Lytle Hernandez [https://history.ucla.edu/person/kelly-lytle-hernandez/], history professor at the University of California Los Angeles. To access the transcript and learn more about this episode, visit: https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-jefferson-cowie-eufala-alabama [https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-jefferson-cowie-eufala-alabama]

Mstyslav Chernov [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/associated-press-work-mstyslav-chernov-evgeniy-maloletka-vasilisa-stepanenko-and-lori] and a team of Associated Press [https://apnews.com/] journalists captured the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Mariupol. He talks about their award-winning work for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/associated-press-work-mstyslav-chernov-evgeniy-maloletka-vasilisa-stepanenko-and-lori] with Nancy Barnes of the Boston Globe. To read the transcript and find out more about this episode, visit: https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-mstyslav-chernov-mariupol  [https://pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/podcast-mstyslav-chernov-mariupol]