When Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for Tinkers at the age of 42, it was one of the biggest surprises in the history of American letters. The last time a small-press book won was nearly three ...

KENILWORTH — The book group of the Kenilworth Public Library will meet at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, to discuss “Tinkers,” by Paul Harding. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer prize for fiction ...

Shortly after Ms. Goldman finally agreed to buy the book paying a $1,000 advance things began to go right. Ms. Robinson, who rarely gives blurbs, gave “Tinkers” a stellar one, ...

Yet time is absolutely central to Tinkers. George fixes old clocks, but there is more to it than that. Interrupting his reveries is another book, “The Reasonable Horologist”, whose wisdom ...

When Paul Harding’s novel “Tinkers” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2010, it was a pleasant surprise on a variety of fronts. It was a debut book from a tiny nonprofit publisher funded ...

Part of the outcry over the lack of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction selection this year relates to the sales increase that each year’s winner inevitably receives, and how that windfall will be ...

Tinkers, a first novel by Paul Harding ... Perhaps the biggest surprise is the nature of the book that has achieved all this. Much American fiction is still written in a stripped-down, offhand ...