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" Jennifer Egan&amp;#039;s A Visit From the Goon Squad was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction writing this morning.  The novel, Egan&amp;#039;s fourth, dives into the lives of various people\u2014future, past and present\u2014most of whom work in the music industry and all of whom are connected in some way. It could be a novel, or a collection of short stories or essays that happen to overlap. Goon Squad won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction earlier this year, despite the generally held assumption that Jonathan Franzen&amp;#039;s Freedom would win. This morning&amp;#039;s award unofficially makes it the year&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; book.  Meanwhile, the non fiction award went to Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris won in the drama category and Ron Chernow&amp;#039;s Washington: A Life won for biography. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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