Oct 11 2017
Among the just announced 24 MacArthur Fellows are novelist and critic Viet Thanh Nguyen, and novelist and memoirist Jesmyn Ward. Also honored are playwright Annie Baker, who won the Pulitzer in 2014 for The Flick; New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones (her first book, The Problem We All Live With, is due to publish in 2019); and artist and geographer Trevor Paglen (who has also published a number of books).
The fellowship, which honors "exceptionally creative people," comes with a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000, to be awarded over five years. It is known colloquially as the "genius" award, to the sometime annoyance of the MacArthur Foundation.
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Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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