“Night Watch,” by Jayne Anne Phillips, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” by Nathan Thrall won the award for general nonfiction.
Village Voice critic Greg Tate was awarded a posthumous special citation for his innovative music and literary criticism on Black culture. His essay collection “Flyboy in the Buttermilk” (1992) and its sequel, “Flyboy 2” (2016), have been profound influences on generations of cultural critics. After Tate died at 64, in 2021, journalist and jazz writer Adam Shatz wrote in a tweet that Tate was “to avant-Black music what Clement Greenberg was to Abstract Expressionism, a pioneering critic, canon-builder, curator, astronaut-explorer of planets unknown to most of his peers.”
