Pulitzer on the Road

The Pulitzer on the Road podcast is back for season two! What does it take to win a Pulitzer Prize? In each episode, we'll hear winners in conversation with one another, sharing stories behind their prize-winning work. This packed season features conversations between historians Vladimir Kara-Murza and Anne Applebaum, novelists Jayne Anne Phillips and Viet Thanh Nguyen, playwrights Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage, critics Justin Chang and Joe Morgenstern, biographer Jonathan Eig and journalist Yohance Lacour, investigative reporter Hannah Dreier and photo-journalists Greg Bull and Ivan Valencia, and critic Salamishah Tillet talking with journalists Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An interview between Barbara Kingsolver, Prize winner for Fiction, and Emily Ramshaw of The 19th, on Kingsolver's farm in Appalachia, about the unforgettable narrator she created in her novel, Demon Copperhead. 

Hundreds of migrant parents and children were separated at the US-Mexico border under a Trump administration policy. Caitlin Dickerson writing for The Atlantic won for Explanatory Reporting – she talks with Ginger Thompson of ProPublica.

Hernan Diaz, winner for Fiction, meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a previous Fiction winner, in a New York Gilded Age mansion to discuss Trust, Diaz's novel that explores family, wealth and ambition.

Jefferson Cowie's book Freedom's Dominion gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for History. In Eufaula, Alabama, he meets with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, history professor at the University of California Los Angeles.

Mstyslav Chernov and a team of Associated Press journalists captured the horrors of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Mariupol. He talks about their award-winning work for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Nancy Barnes of the Boston Globe. Access the full transcript and read more about this episode here. 

Hear about how police targeted residents of small town Brookside, Alabama, in an interview with 2023 Pulitzer winners for Local Reporting, John Archibald and Ashley Remkus at AL.com, and Neil Brown, Pulitzer Board member and president of the Poynter Institute. Access the full transcript and read more about this episode here.

The Pulitzer Prizes is launching a Pulitzer on the Road podcast, part of a public programming initiative celebrating the work of Pulitzer Prize-winners with audiences across the country. The six podcast episodes will be released weekly beginning March 25, each featuring interviews with 2023 winners in journalism and books, and delving into the stories behind their work. Read more about the podcast series here.