The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced their 2007 “Genius Grant” recipients, so we thought we’d direct you to some of the recipients’ work:
   
Stuart Dybek (writer)
ONLINE TEXTS & CRITICISM
American short-story writers since World War II
The International Association of Crime Writers presents Bad behavior
The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction : fifty North American stories since 1970
The eleventh draft : craft and the writing life from Iowa Writers’ Workshop
The Norton anthology of contemporary fiction
I sailed with Magellan (ABC)
PP/FF : an anthology (ABC)
Our working lives : short stories of people and work (ABC)
The Vintage book of contemporary American short stories (ABC)

Dawn Upshaw (vocalist)
Ainadamar (CD)

Ayre (CD)

Jonathan Shay (clinical psychiatrist/classicist)
Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character

Odysseus in America : combat trauma and the trials of homecoming

Saul Griffith (Inventor)
Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop–from personal computers to personal fabrication (It discusses his work.)

Peter Cole (Translator/Poet/Publisher)
ONLINE CRITICISM
Hymns & qualms
Rift
The Dream Of The Poem : Hebrew Poetry From Muslim And Christian Spain, 950-1492

Mercedes Doretti (Forensic Anthropologist)
Following Antigone [DVD] : forensic anthropology and human rights investigations (ABC)

Michael Elowitz (Molecular Biologist)
“Synthetic Life” (online article)
“Microbes Made to Order” (online article)

Posted by Brandy on September 27, 2007 10:01 AM