"The Shallows" is Pulitzer Finalist

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and I'm thrilled to report that my book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was named a finalist in the General Nonfiction category. The prize winner in the category was Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. The other finalist was S. C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History....