The Pulitzer gong has sounded, the medals draped across the chests of many deserving authors and journalists. Here’s a look at those in the book world who took home the gold.

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So many literary magazines, so little time.

Right?

We’re here to help.

Every week we scour the online world of literature, searching for stories strong enough to punch us dead. Here’s this week’s knuckle sandwiches.

Enjoy.

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For your reading pleasure: Here’s roughly an hour’s worth of literary distraction for this, the cruelest day of the workweek. Rise above your cubicle and visit Nice, where prize-winning French author JMG Le Clézio discusses the early days of his writing career. Next it’s off to Saudi Arabia, where poets perform on television and are rewarded for their skills. Then head to Denver, the location of this year’s AWP conference, where Steve Almond, writing in the Rumpus, delivers a how-to-behave manual for fledgling scribes. The shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced; Open Books — that venerable Seattle hotspot of poetry collections — is celebrating a milestone; Deborah Eisenberg praises Skylark, a novel by Dezso Kosztolányi, and Derrida gets his treatment from N + 1. See, we’ve traveled the literary world in just a couple of minutes. Want to keep going? Then read on, you literary vagabonds. — Kevin Murphy

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