Stuart Dybek, Genius

The MacArthur Foundation named its 2007 crop of (“genius”) Fellows. Fiction writers have done pretty well in recent years (Aleksander Hemon, Jonathan Lethem, and George Saunders have all won), and this year the sole fiction-writing “genius” was Stuart Dybek.

Looking through the whole slate of “geniuses” is generally pretty interesting, although about half the “geniuses”‘ work I tend not to understand.

“Genius” and “geniuses” are of course in quotes because the MacArthur Foundation tends to officially discourage the grant being called that, although, really, I can’t imagine they’re not delighted by the name.