Welcome back to the Bookry Podcast to weekly news and talk show about its new cool and worth talking

about in the world of books and reading. Today is Thursday, May 19th, 2022. I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky.

As always, coming to you from Book Riot.com,

Rebecca, last time we got, we made a huge mistake.

And a huge mistake, meaning a mistake I do not feel that bad about

for reasons I will rationalize here in a minute. Kazaaiseo Isha Giro is not an American, an ergo,

not eligible to win the Pulitzer Prize.

So in defense of us, that is a stupid rule,

and it's not the same for the journalism parts

of the Pulitzer's, where you can be from wherever

and as long as your thing appeared in an American publication,

which I don't know, a little company called PRH is in Riverhead, or I think is Riverhead, or is it just random house? That was the Kazu sugar. I can't remember the imprint. But anyway, it's under the... It was published in America. I think it's silly that this is a rule for the Pulitzer. it's supposed to be about American life.

I think we're beyond that.

And I had forgotten, I think the other thing I was conflating was

that the Booker went to English speaking,

and I just had forgotten that this still was this provincial rule.

Okay, so congratulations. A book about the Net and Yahoo's who I believe are Israelis

Prime Ministers was eligible where

Kazuoshogoro is not that's the rule we're out I forgot you know I like that you

just went straight for this as a stupid rule I I do agree with that. I was going to go more for like I was tired. It was Thursday.

Both of these things can be true. And thanks to our listeners who pointed this out because I was like genuinely puzzled

last week like how how I'm sure all these books are good but like come on there is an Ishiguru

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