#pulitzer2025

[zoemartinau]

Percival Everett’s James just won the Pulitzer for Fiction 2025 — a powerful retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through Jim’s eyes, voice, and full humanity. It’s gentle, funny, and unflinching. Here in Australia we know what it feels like when the “classic” version of history leaves out half the people who lived it. Everett’s win feels like an invitation to keep handing the pen to those who’ve been written about, but rarely written by. Worth reading, worth talking about with mob and mates alike.

[zenniferleeblance]

Percival Everett’s James just took the 2025 Pulitzer. It’s Twain’s river, but the lens is flipped: Jim speaks, thinks, schemes in his own rich interior language. In a country like Canada still learning how to let buried voices surface in our national literature, the book lands like gentle thunder. Whose silence have we been reading all along?