Pulitzers and Podcasts

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Feb 12th, 2025

The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on June 11. To celebrate, we've rounded up a collection of Pulitzer-winning or Pulitzer-adjacent episodes. The Podglomerate produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. Learn more at our website: www.thepodglomerate.com

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Episode	Description	Date Aired	Categories	Hosts	Episode Guests	Length	Curator's Notes
The History of Literature 316 Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino)	"Willa Cather (1873-1947) went from a childhood in Nebraska to a career in publ...	March 15, 2021	Arts Books History	Jacke Wilson	--	1:07:40s	Think someone else deserved a prize? Sometimes, history looks oddly at Pulitzer choices. No one denies that Willa Cather is one of America's great writers, but it's strange to reflect she received her prize for One of Ours, one of her lesser bo

The Process with Jude Brewer STORYBOUND: Mitchell S. Jackson	"Mitchell S. Jackson reads an excerpt from his memoir "Survival Math" with soun...	February 18, 2020	Society Culture Technology Science	Jude Brewer	--	1:06:37s	Mitchell Jackson received a 2021 Pulitzer for "a deeply affecting account of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery that combined vivid writing, thorough reporting and personal experience to shed light on systemic racism in America." In this episode of S

Cannonball with Wesley Morris 40 Acres and a Movie	"Disney owns a piece of every living person’s childhood. Now it owns Marvel Stu...	April 8, 2021	Society Culture News Arts	Wesley Morris Jenna Wortham	--	39:43s	Still Processing cohost won a 2021 Pulitzer in Criticism for "unrelentingly relevant and deeply engaged criticism on the intersection of race and culture in America, written in a singular style, alternately playful and profound." Morris is the

The Process with Jude Brewer STORYBOUND: Soraya Nadia McDonald	"Soraya Nadia McDonald reads her essay "Wandering In Search of Wakanda", with a...	February 2, 2021	Society Culture Technology Science	Jude Brewer	--	38:14s	Soraya Nadia McDonald was a 2020 Pulitzer finalist in Criticism.

The B&N Podcast Colson Whitehead	"From elevator inspectors to championship poker to an epic of escape from bonda...	June 29, 2017	Arts Books	--	Colson Whitehead	21:38s	Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for two consecutive novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. He's written everything from a book-length homage to New York to a novel about a beset branding consultant to, yes, a

Social Distance Dealing With Post-Pandemic Trauma	"We've all been suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic in one way or another, a...	May 20, 2021	Health Fitness News Science	Dr. James Hamblin Katherine Wells	--	40:46s	Atlantic author Ed Yong received a 2021 Pulitzer for his reporting on the coronavirus. In this episode of Social Distance, he talks about his writing on post-pandemic trauma.

No Compromise A World Where The NRA Is Soft On Guns	"One of the same far-right groups behind this spring's anti-quarantine protests...	September 8, 2020	Government News Politics Society Culture	Chris Haxel	--	32:52s	The creators of this NPR miniseries won the second-ever audio reporting Pulitzer for this show on gun rights fanaticism.

Think from KERA McDonalds And Black America	"“Silver Rights” is a post-Civil Rights concept that aimed to make capitalism w...	February 27, 2020	Society Culture	Krys Boyd	Marcia Chatelain	48:07s	Marcia Chatelain won a 2021 Pulitzer for her writing on McDonald's, Black culture, and civil rights in Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.

Live at the Lortel: An Off-Broadway Podcast Katori Hall	"Olivier Award-winning playwright and the showrunner of P-VALLEY, a new Starz d...	December 4, 2020	Arts Performing Arts Music	--	--	38:58s	Katori Hall won the 2021 Pulitzer for Drama for The Hot Wing King.

This is Just to Say Natalie Diaz	"Poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with poet Natalie Diaz about her poetr...	September 25, 2018	Arts Books Society Culture	--	--	46:33s	Natalie Diaz won the 2021 Pulitzer for Poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem, "a collection of tender, heart-wrenching and defiant poems that explore what it means to love and be loved in an America beset by conflict."

The Collective Voice David Zucchino	"Each episode of Collective Voice looks at one issue facing the Cape Fear regio...	February 21, 2020	Business Non Profit Society Culture News	--	--	34:29s	Zucchino won the 2021 Pulitzer in Nonfiction for his history Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy. This episode was recorded in January 2020 at a library event.

92Y's Read By Louise Erdrich	"Louise Erdrich on her selections: We have become isolated and strangely pass...	May 2, 2020	Arts Books Fiction	--	Louise Erdrich	28:24s	Louise Erdrich won the Pulitzer for Fiction for The Night Watchman, "a majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexter

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