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The Grift That Keeps On Giving

A Special Place in Hell

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A New Interview With a Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist June O'Dias was accused of forcibly kissing a graduate student at Columbia University. Ben Smith's new media outlet, semaphore, interviewed the Dominican American writer about his life and how it turned out to be just a kiss on the cheek. In an interview that came out in semaphore this woman decided to frame the incident in such a way that she said he had forcibly kissed her. The Pulitzer committee did some sort of investigation and really nothing came about it um but he just uh he has not published anything since he has not written any fiction he's absolutely exiled. He lost everything even though he had won the Pulitzer at that time.

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