![]() ![]() I thought, how bizarre that I had done that! And it’s not the main character who wins the Pulitzer Prize-it’s the kind of person I imagine winning, which is a well-established, already-famous poet who’s expected to win and is still shocked in the book. You know, that was one of the first things I thought of. Do you enjoy the irony of including a scene about winning the Pulitzer in what is now a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel? ![]() ![]() You don’t find out that you’ve been hired or fired until you hear it from another source. He will know.” He said, “You won the Pulitzer Prize.” And then he said, “Am I the one telling you?” And I said, “Yes, you’re the one telling me.” It’s almost like you’re a member of the Trump administration. He showed me his phone, which was a picture of the San Francisco Chronicle saying that I had won the Pulitzer Prize, and I said, "But it’s not true, you know, one of your friends made that up." And then I looked at my phone finally, and I had a hundred text messages and calls from people who did have my Italian number. I work in an artist residency in Tuscany, and a friend of mine was there. I found out strangely, because I’m so far off on time here, after dinner about 10:30 at night. ![]() SIM number-I’m on Italian SIM-so a lot of people tried to call me that night. Still! I feel like there’s got to be a ceremony, maybe? It’s possible that someone called my U.S. Andrew Sean Greer Kaliel Roberts Tell about getting the news. ![]()
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