tie-in novel wins Pulitzer Prize

06:47 pm April 17th, 2006




			KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life - tie-in novel wins Pulitzer Prize ramblings from a mad fedora'd writer

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	tie-in novel wins Pulitzer Prize
	No, that's not a joke, not an April Fool's joke, not a hoax, not an imaginary tale. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to March by Geraldine Brooks. This is a novel about the life of the father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. It's a novel starring characters not created by Brooks set in a universe not originally envisioned by Brooks. That, folks, is a media tie-in novel, and I don't care what anybody says to try to rationalize it. It's a tie-in. And it won the Pulitzer. Put that in your hair and rub it. (Thanks to Jeff Mariotte for pointing this out.) Current Mood: determined Current Music: "Sealion II" by Jethro Tull

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	From: cheshyre	Date: April 17th, 2006 11:03 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Was it officially licensed by the Alcott estate?

If not, I might call that a fanfic, rather than tie-in.

Either way, point against the detractors of either. ;}

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	From: caliente_uk	Date: April 17th, 2006 11:33 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I have to say that March is a wonderful book...and that's all that matters as far as I'm concerned. But then again I am a fan of (good) tie-in novels and fanfic. :)

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From: (Anonymous)	Date: April 17th, 2006 11:47 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hot Damn.

My sequel to Altanta Nights is a shoe-in for next year. Sweet!

-- Dayton

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	From: kradical	Date: April 18th, 2006 03:02 am (UTC)		(Link)

Wooooo doggy!

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	From: querldox	Date: April 18th, 2006 12:06 am (UTC)		(Link)

Next thing you know, they'll be giving Pulitzers to comic books!*

*[Technically, they haven't yet. Maus got a special one, rather than winning a regular category]

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	From: rick_day	Date: April 18th, 2006 12:07 am (UTC)		(Link)

what is a ''media tie-in"?

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	From: cheshyre	Date: April 18th, 2006 01:04 am (UTC)		(Link)

licensed fanfic. :)

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	From: rick_day	Date: April 18th, 2006 02:51 am (UTC)		(Link)
	uhhh

it is still not clear.

unless, it is like Keith winning the Pulitzer for the "Art of the Impossible" but that Star Trek didn't?

Help a human out, plz!

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	From: kradical	Date: April 18th, 2006 03:00 am (UTC)		(Link)

No it isn't, either, and thirty lashes with a wet noodle for you! *waggles finger*

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	From: cheshyre	Date: April 18th, 2006 11:17 am (UTC)		(Link)

*smiles and sticks out tongue*

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	From: kradical	Date: April 18th, 2006 03:00 am (UTC)		(Link)

A media tie-in is a book or story or comic book that's based on a property from another media. A Star Trek novel is a media tie-in. So's a Spider-Man novel or a CSI comic book or a Warcraft manga. *grin*

Tie-ins are often looked down on by the literary intelligentsia as lesser literature -- yet a Pulitzer goes to a book that's really no different from a Conan novel.

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	From: rick_day	Date: April 18th, 2006 03:13 am (UTC)		(Link)

ok, Keith. That is what I think I figured out. Thanks!

Always learning something new,

me

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	From: allaboutm_e	Date: April 18th, 2006 05:22 pm (UTC)		(Link)

ooooh, Conan tie-ins!

:: grin ::

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From: jafinnola	Date: April 18th, 2006 12:10 am (UTC)		(Link)

If it's a good read, it's a good book.

Hey, the New Orleans Times-Picayune won 2 Pulitzer's for its Katrina coverage. The mere fact that this otherwise rag of a paper didn't float away with everything else is amazing.

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	From: marinarusalka	Date: April 18th, 2006 05:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hey, I don't know how many of them won major prizes before, but both tie-ins and fanfic have been respectable literary forms for ages, going back at least as far as Virgil's Aeneid which is, like, totally an Iliad fanfic and a blatant Marty Stu to boot.

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	From: rainfletcher	Date: April 18th, 2006 06:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Word, Scuba Girl. A few years ago I took a class on Arthurian literature, and some of it was flat out self-insertion fanfic. For example, we had the tale of Sir Whosit who was the only one who could drink from a magical horn of wine where even King Arthur failed, only to learn at the end of the story that it was written by Sir Whosit.

It occurred to me at that point that Literature is probably just that which survives, and "good" or "bad" becomes largely irrelevant in the end.

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