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Mal Warwick
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Mal Warwick's personal blog at malwarwickonbooks.com covers writing and history. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link Mal Warwick's posts on the Open Sauce event in the Bay Area and on how many books are published in the US each year. The comments cite or link them without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explore Mal Warwick's book reviews and insights on literature, from mysteries to nonfiction.
Most-linked posts?
- How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-20
What Hacker News says?
https://malwarwickonbooks.com/oss-spy/
Comment linking /oss-spy/
on “Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event”Submitted A list of books about business history as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt seems the NYT review has an overall positive sentiment with statements like “irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment.” It seems like there’s almost 300,000 books published in the US each year [0] so being on NPR’s list is pretty distinguished. So a better way would be to say it’s in the 99.9th percentile. [0] https://malwarwickonbooks.com/published-every-year/
Comment linking /published-every-year/
on “‘Misogynistic’ Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation”Submitted Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> "Writers win the Pulitzer Prize and sell just [a] few hundred copies." For anyone else who was intrigued by this statement: The essay links to another Medium essay[0] which links to a book critic's blog[1] which links to a 2014 article from Publisher's Weekly[2]. That article reports, e.g., that in the week after winning the Pulitzer for general nonfiction, " Tom's River by Dan Fagin, went from 10 copies to 162 co…
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on “The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul”Submitted How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNumerous historians have shown that strategic bombing was counterproductive for three reasons: 1) It rallied civilian morale to side with the government. People were aggrieved that they were being bombed, and it stiffened their resistance and motivated them to work harder towards the war effort. 2) Despite strategic bombing targeting factories and industrial infrastructure, they only caused superficial damage. The d…
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on “Burning Hamburg 1943 – the first culmination of liberal militarism”Submitted The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis as a story · 1 points
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