Congratualions, Eli!

(Don't channel Goldy.)

Not sure that statue isn't someone female.

Great work Eli. You more than deserve this. Don't channel Dan either. Just saying.

Do they pay airfair/housing/etc.? Just curious...

Eli is such a cutie

A quick guess is it's a statue of Abiel Abbot Low, who the Library was named after.

Benjamin Franklin? Who is also on the Pulitzer medal...

Guess I'll have to finally go read the motherfucking article. I've really not wanted to...

So proud of you Eli! To think, one more Pulitzer and you'll be just like David Horsey! (ducks)

One word: NINA! Love.

Congrats again, Eli!

Congrats to the Stranger as a whole, actually. When an article is this good, it probably means that Eli had coworkers discussing it with them, an editor's input, etc. as well. Great work seldom happens in a vacuum.

There's a kind of smile that my father would call 'a shit eating grin' -- some people mistake that gross description as smug or obnoxious, but he always meant it in a different way -- as the kind of smile you can give when you're feeling pretty good -- so good that there's not any malice or attitude behind it, you're not smiling to prove your happy or your worth.

That is definitely a shit eating grin (even if that wasn't Eli's intention.) And well deserved one at that.

Low library? Not the high one? Bastids....

The Emperor Claudius. Dead ringer for him.

(Not Eli. The statue.)

@6 - Low Library isn't actually a library. It's an administrative building named after Alfred Library. It's quite a low building, hence the name. I'd guess that the statue is of Alfred Library.

Not only smart, funny, and kind... also TOTAL FOX!

@12, I must be the same demographic as your father because I totally understand "shit eating grin" and it's a very good thing indeed.
Go Eli, so well deserved!

hooooray eli! hooray eli's mom!

hahaha

wow that grin

good for you, eli

I was in Low Library this afternoon and remembered to look for this bust --- it's of Grayson Kirk, the president of Columbia University from 1953 - 1969.