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12904422, MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners for 2015 Are Announced
Posted by luminous, Wed Sep-30-15 09:53 AM
http://nytimes.com/2015/09/29/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-for-2015-are-announced.html
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ta-Nehisi Coates among the winners...
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12904534, I always wonder what some people do with their grant...
Posted by PimpTrickGangstaClik, Wed Sep-30-15 11:52 AM
Especially the writers and artists.
The researchers often use the money to fund their work (for example I think Roland Fryer (economist) use it to study inner city schooling).
Do the writers, etc. just basically pay themselves?
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12904811, They use it as income so they can continue pursuing their craft
Posted by Goldmind, Wed Sep-30-15 02:47 PM
That's the whole point of the grant -- to encourage creative people to continue their work and live up to their promise. I would alternately cry and shit myself if I ever received that reward as a writer lol.
Meanwhile, I read that the novelist Edwidge Danticat used some of her grant money to help victims of the Haiti earthquake, which makes me love her all the more.
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12904910, Ben Lerner is a family friend and Lin Manuel lived in our building.
Posted by ShawndmeSlanted, Wed Sep-30-15 06:48 PM
If you know us there's a high rate you win the MacArthur!
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