I keep a binder of stories that remind me , though : Anne Hull 's portrait of gay America , Andrea Elliott 's story about an imam in Brooklyn saddling two worlds , Rick Bragg 's Pulitzer-winning tale of Alabama inmates plagued by old age who still find beauty in flowers , Jacqui Banaszynski 's Pulitzer-winning delve into the lives of two gay men , farmers who fell in love and physically fell apart because of it .