Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Withheld in Anticipation of DonJon's Epic Novel

Chelsea Hotel (MP) - In an unexpected move the Pulitzer Board withheld awarding a winner in the 2012 fiction category, announcing they had not come to a majority decision on the three finalists. But sources close to the Pulitzer Board claim they became aware that DonJon had just released the first episode of The KING of MO, An Autobiography of a Dream and delayed their decision in anticipation of entering it into the competition.

Max Penmark, Editor Extraordinaire, and collaborator on DonJon's self-declared "greatest English language epic ever written" offered this statement:

" 'I will go for the dream that Artists will rule the world'

The King of Mo draws you in. There's no other way to put it. From the very first quote, a promise of ambition that throws the gauntlet down from the very first page, you know that you're in the hands of an author with vision. An author with a vision that reaches not just across our society, but our history. Not just across our world, but our universe. Not just across our reality, but across our very dreams.

The King of Mo tells the world like it is. In the face of a crumbling capitalism, and the depressed, disappointing result that it has begat, it tells us of a reality and a promise and a future that stretches beyond all that: a future that harkens back to a glorious past, where art rules and the idea of bohemianism continues to reign.

In a few chapters, our protagonists Kyle and Don Jon are put into motion. Kyle, I don't know about yet: a formerly wealthy now bohemian, he's still finding his footing. But Don Jon is a vision: an immediately unique character that embodies the spirit of the Hotel Chelsea in a living, breathing way from his very first moment.

If artistry isn't you thing, no worries. It continues: into the Multiverse, a dream world that takes the promise of the first few chapters and gives it a scope that's unimaginable from the first lines of the story.

And I guess that's the point. In three chapters, this opening prologue takes us from the a fascinating earthly story steeped in cultural history that feels mostly forgotten in our modern age to an inter dimensional visionary tale that unfolds organically. Depth and breadth, it leaves you wanting more, and sometimes overwhelms you with it's scope and vision.

As Don Jon himself says, "The Chelsea is a place to die, to cry, to go on the sly; to lose your mind, your inhibition, your cock ring; a place to find your heart, your soul, yourself... and lose it again; a place to create illusions, impressions, distractions, exultations, hallucinations, obsessions, reflections, redactions, temptations, and, very possibly, grand ovations."

Create your own grand ovations. You won't regret it."

The Pulitzer Board has not offered a statement on the allegations, and refused a request for an interview for this article.

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Fiction

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/nobody-wins-pulitzer-prize-fiction-2012_n_1429357.html