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Post number 2132

elgoose — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:34:50 -0800

MacArthur Foundation genius grants -- I didn't get one this year, but Ben Katchor did. So did some other astonishing people, such as Patricia J. Williams, of whose column "Diary of a Mad Law Professor" in The Nation I am a particular fan.

By: snarkout

snarkout — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:54:53 -0800

Hey! Anne Carson won a genius grant! I know Autobiography of Red made a big splash, but I think Plainwater is better--one of the two or three best books of poetry from the Nineties that I've read.

By: jbushnell

jbushnell — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:03:08 -0800

The MacArthur strikes me as consistently "on." In previous years they've given 'em out to David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Jorie Graham, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman ... not a dud in the bunch.