Almost Levine

Stacey Levine’s Third Novel Came Very Close to Winning the 2025 Pulitzer for Fictionby Charles MudedeMice 1961, Stacey Levine’s third novel, came very close to winning the 2025 Pulitzer for Fiction. It was one of the prize’s three finalists, but the judges selected a fourth-placed novel, Percival Everett’s James, due, apparently, to a stalemate at the top that couldn’t be resolved. Levine is a Seattle writer. She has lived and worked here for as long as I can rememb