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Pulitzer on the Road came to Detroit for a conversation on cultural criticism today at Detroit's iconic Michigan Central Station on March 26, 2025.
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Pulitzer on the Road is a public outreach initiative celebrating the work of Pulitzer Prize winners with audiences across the country. Join us for live events, and subscribe to the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast.
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In the season finale of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 Fiction Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips and 2016 Fiction Prize winner/Pulitzer Board member Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss writing about war, the transformative power of literature, and the ways knowledge is passed from one generation to the next.
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In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 Biography Prize winner Jonathan Eig and 2024 Audio Reporting staff contributor Yohance Lacour discuss what it means to revisit old stories in order to offer new perspectives, the importance of collaboration, and the role journalism can still play in helping America heal from the past.
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In 2023, a record-breaking number of migrants braved the harrowing journey to the U.S./Mexico border in hopes of being granted asylum in America. In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, we hear from three Pulitzer-winning journalists who covered different stages of this experience: 2024 Feature Photography staff contributors Iván Valencia and Gregory Bull, and two-time Pulitzer-winning reporter Hannah Dreier.
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In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, journalists Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler discuss the pathbreaking data- and community-driven reporting that undergirded their 2024 Local Reporting Prize-winning Missing in Chicago project with 2022 Criticism winner Salamishah Tillet, co-founder of the nonprofit A Long Way Home.
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In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2023 Drama Prize winner Sanaz Toossi and 2009/2017 Drama winner Lynn Nottage discuss the political implications of contemporary theater — and their respectively circuitous journeys toward eminence in their field — as Toossi prepares for the Broadway run of her Pulitzer-winning "English."
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In this episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 Criticism winner Justin Chang and 2005 Criticism winner Joe Morgenstern offer a cross-generational master class in film criticism, from classical Hollywood cinema and the birth pangs of the New Hollywood era to "Oppenheimer," TikTok and beyond.
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On this next episode of the Pulitzer on the Road podcast, the staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, walk us through what it was like covering catastrophic flooding and mudslides in Santa Cruz County.
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On this first episode of season two of the Pulitzer on the Road podcast, 2024 Commentary winner Vladimir Kara-Murza is in conversation with Pulitzer Board member and 2004 General Nonfiction winner Anne Applebaum
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The Pulitzer on the Road Podcast features interviews with recent and past prize winners in Journalism, Books and Drama.
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Pulitzer on the Road was in Chicago for a literary conversation titled, "Writing the Big Impossible Thing" on Wednesday March 5, 2025.
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Pulitzer on the Road was in Stockton, California on February 13, 2025 for a conversation featuring prize-winning journalists at San Joaquin Delta College.
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Pulitzer on the Road had its first event in New York City featuring three honorees in Drama!
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2024 Biography winner Jonathan Eig and 2023 General Nonfiction winner Robert Samuels were in conversation with Pulitzer Board member Kelly Lytle Hernández.
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2023 Local Reporting winner Anna Wolfe, 2024 Local Reporting Finalist Jerry Mitchell, and 2023 Investigative Reporting contributor Brody Mullins were in conversation with Layne Bruce of the Mississippi Press Association.
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Revisit this April 2024 cross-genre discussion event with three Pulitzer Prize winners at the L.A. Times Festival of Books.
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The Pulitzer Prizes launched its first ever podcast with a journalism event in Phoenix at Arizona State University, with 2023 winners John Archibald and Caitlin Dickerson.
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2023 Fiction winner Hernan Diaz and 2023 Feature Writing winner Eli Saslow discussed writing, character building and the creative process at the Austin Central Public Library Gallery on November 16, 2023.
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Prior to the Pulitzer on the Road event in Austin, 2023 Fiction winner Hernan Diaz and 2023 Feature Writing winner Eli Saslow spoke to a large assembly of high schoolers at Dripping Springs High School. Watch a brief recap here.
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2022 Investigative Reporting winner Corey G. Johnson and 2010 Local Reporting winner Raquel Rutledge joined Pulitzer Administrator Marjorie Miller in Madison, Wisconsin on March 28, 2023 for the first in a series of Pulitzer on the Road events.