Continuing Lessons in Journalism Pedantry  We were sleepily
browsing last night's Publishers Lunch deal report early this
morning, disappointed to see that nothing in it got us
particularly excited. Then we happened across this entry, which
at least intrigued us:  Crime and court reporter for the St.
Petersburg Times (and two-time Pulitzer nominee) Christopher
Goffard's SNITCH JACKET, a literary crime novel with a complex
and morally ambiguous hero, to James Gurbutt of Harvill Secker,
by Philip Patterson of Marjacq Scripts (UK/BC).  Why were we
interested in this? Because there's no such thing as a "Pulitzer
nominee." It's another teachable moment!  There are Pulitzer
finalists, and there are Pulitzer winners. Finalists are the
equivalent of, say, Oscar nominees — they're the contenders for
awards, chosen by juries and announced at the same time as the
prizewinners. We assumed this was just a terminological error,
that Goffard is really a two-time finalist. But then we checked
the Pulitzer database; no dice.