Book links roundup: Lost Pulitzer for fiction finds winners, Pocket Star goes digital, and more

• Literary critics choose the winners of the lost 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
• Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Star returns as ebook imprint
• Five up-and-coming comic artists discovered at TCAF
• Can the Internet save book reviews?
• Penguin apologizes for Nick Robinson error in Dial M for Murdoch

Book links roundup: Jennifer Egan’s writing life, Brick Books redesigns website, and more

• Jennifer Egan talks to Paper Mag about her Pulitzer Prize, writing, and her awful temp jobs
• Brick Books launches new website
• Russell Smith finds this year’s lack of a Pulitzer Prize for fiction no big deal
• Leo McKay launches Indiegogo online campaign to fund new book, Roll Up the Rim
• Germany to allow new editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for students

Pulitzer board declines to hand out fiction award

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today, but you won’t find a recipient in the fiction category. Publishers Lunch reports that the Pulitzer board “failed to reach a majority” in selecting a winner for the $10,000 award.

The fiction jury, made up of Maureen Corrigan, critic-in-residence at Georgetown University, novelist Michael Cunningham, and Susan Larson, host of the radio program The Reading Life, shortlisted Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King for the honour.

This is the eleventh time that a Pulitzer has not been distributed in the fiction category since the prize was founded 95 years ago. The last time was in 1977.

Winners of the annual awards, administered by Columbia University, were revealed in the fields of journalism, letters, drama, and music. Winners in the letters and drama categories are:

Drama
Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

History
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking)

Biography
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (Penguin)

Poetry
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)

General Non-fiction
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company)

Book links roundup: National Geographic to launch digital singles, Thoreau helps scientists, and more

• National Geographic enters the digital shorts market
• Scientists examine Henry David Thoreau’s journals to track climate change
• Will the success of Fifty Shades of Grey “spawn a wave of repurposed fan-fiction erotica?”
• IPG client sales fall as the distributor continues to fight Amazon
• Former death-row inmate released, thanks in part to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Raymond Bonner

Daily book biz round-up, April 13

The sap that floweth from the news tree:

• Pulitzer Prizes announced
• Pulitzer-winner Tinkers is the first small press title to win the award since A Confederacy of Dunces
• Gawker on Jay McInerney’s debut as wine critic
• NY Times calls Yann Martel’s latest “offensive” and “perverse”
• Goldman Sachs sees bright sales future for e-books
• Stop the madness! Apparently, Google has tablet in the works