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. . . the Academy Awards, which, by the way, is not an institution devoted to choosing the best movie every year as much as it is an institution designed to get people excited about going to the movies. The Pulitzer Prize is our best chance as writers and readers and booksellers to celebrate fiction.
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If the Pulitzer Prize is about celebrating fiction, than it
is just like the Oscars.
There already is a somewhat similar prize that is given every year, regardless of the degree to which a board of judges can agree on a winner. This is the National Book Awards, which was founded by,
and is still mostly run by, book publishers and sellers. That's where you would look more for the celebration.