Name: Still Running: My Life as the First Black Football Player in the SEC
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Each year, the Pulitzer Prizes honor the highest achievements in print journalism, literary achievement, and musical composition in the preceding year across 23 categories. Below are the winners and finalists in fiction, history, biography, memoir or autobiography, poetry, and general nonfiction. Honorees include Jonathan Eig's monumental biography of MLK Jr., Cristina Rivera Garza's heart-wrenching investigation into her sister's murder, and Jayne Anne Phillips' harrowing, post-Civil War novel.  

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We hope you did some spring cleaning on your bookshelves because this week starts a bountiful harvest of new releases including: the buzzing sci-fi rom-com that's already being adapted by A24, Colm Toibin's Brooklyn sequel that some critics are calling his masterpiece, an Argentine novel currently nominated for an International Booker Prize, an astonishing study of the power of plants by a New Yorker writer, and acclaimed memoirs from Jen Psaki, Tom Selleck, Ali Velshi and Brittney Griner.

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Every Wednesday throughout the year, the New Yorker’s editors and critics curate the most thought-provoking and talked-about books. We’re sharing some nonfiction highlights here in an eclectic reading list including: the acclaimed memoir of motherhood and divorce from Leslie Jamison, a dishy oral history of The Village Voice, and a timely, important examination of 2020 through the lens of five ordinary New Yorkers.

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The New Yorker rounds up the best new book, and we've chosen our favorite nonfiction picks of 2024 so far. This eclectic mix includes a new memoir from Leslie Jamison, an oral history of The Village Voice, and more.

The book club mavens have made their April picks, and there’s something here for every reader—from an astrophysicist’s predictions about the end of days, to a novel mash-up of Groundhog Day and Bridget Jones’s Diary. See the Tertulia bestseller picked by Kaia Gerber and the essay collection that Roxane Gay said inspires her to maintain strength in times of crisis. 

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Stories of remarkable women dominate the celebrity book club picks this March, as is fitting for Women’s History Month. Both Reese's Book Club and Alison Stewart champion Xochitl Gonzalez’s sophomore novel about a Brooklyn art school student discovering the life of a forgotten female artist. Backlist gems get some love with Natalie Portman selecting  Nora Ephron’s Heartburn and Kaia Gerber picking the reissue of the 1979 classic Sex and Rage, about a dreamy girl going to New York to find her purpose. Whether reading in a room of one’s own or planning next month's pick for their own clubs, Tertulia members get a diverse set recommendations this month from the book club mavens.

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