Mostly these will be people you have never heard about but whom critics esteem very highly ( such as the writer Deborah Eisenberg, whose short stories are only known to the cognoscenti and other people in the little bubble of a certain NYC intellectual world).
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Jeremy Denk, pianist and writer. Winner of the 2013 MacArthur Genius Award.
(MacArthur Foundation)
This year's list of the 24 fellows named by the MacArthur Foundation
includes a number of musicians, writers and academics from the region,
as well as a doctor pioneering a new type of health care network in
the inner city.
In total, nine winners of the so-called "genius awards" are
from New York and two are from New Jersey. Among the New York winners
are fiction writer Karen Russell, author of the 2011 hit novel Swamplandia, the choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham, the pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, as well as Sheila Nirenberg, a neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Iver and classical pianist and writer Jeremy Denk joined John Schaefer Tuesday to talk about the awards — including how they found out they were winners this year. To listen to the full conversation, click here.
Russell said she hopes to use the grant money to research her second novel.
"It's set in the Great Plains, and it's sort of a fantastical re-imagining of the Dust Bowl drought, so I've been wanting to get out there, you know, I'm from Florida, so that region is as exotic as the moon to me."
The recipients from New Jersey are Jeffrey Brenner, a primary care physician, who was recognized for his work on delivering health care to vulnerable populations in Camden; and Julie Livingston, a Rutgers history professor who works with archival research to explore treatment of chronic illness and debilitating diseases in Botswana.
Livingston said she's still trying to decide what to use the grant money for. She describes her work as "knitting together" the fields of history, anthropology, and public health.
"I really am like a woman with a notebook and a computer who likes spending time with people and figuring out why they do the things that they do, how they make their decisions and what are the logics and pressures and opportunities that structure their lives," she said.
The 2013 winners each receive $625,000 over the next five years to use toward their work.
Here's a complete list of New York and New Jersey winners
Iver and classical pianist and writer Jeremy Denk joined John Schaefer Tuesday to talk about the awards — including how they found out they were winners this year. To listen to the full conversation, click here.
Russell said she hopes to use the grant money to research her second novel.
"It's set in the Great Plains, and it's sort of a fantastical re-imagining of the Dust Bowl drought, so I've been wanting to get out there, you know, I'm from Florida, so that region is as exotic as the moon to me."
The recipients from New Jersey are Jeffrey Brenner, a primary care physician, who was recognized for his work on delivering health care to vulnerable populations in Camden; and Julie Livingston, a Rutgers history professor who works with archival research to explore treatment of chronic illness and debilitating diseases in Botswana.
Livingston said she's still trying to decide what to use the grant money for. She describes her work as "knitting together" the fields of history, anthropology, and public health.
"I really am like a woman with a notebook and a computer who likes spending time with people and figuring out why they do the things that they do, how they make their decisions and what are the logics and pressures and opportunities that structure their lives," she said.
The 2013 winners each receive $625,000 over the next five years to use toward their work.
Here's a complete list of New York and New Jersey winners
- Kyle Abraham, choreographer and dancer
- Donald Antrim, writing professor and author, Columbia University
- Jeffrey Brenner, primary care physician
- Jeremy Denk, pianist and writer
- Craig Fennie, materials scientists, Cornell University
- Vijay Iyer, jazz pianist and composer
- Julie Livingston, health historian and anthropologist, Rutgers University
- Sheila Nirenberg, neuroscientist, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Alexei Ratmansky, choreographer in residence, American Ballet Theatre
- Karen Russell, fiction writer
- Carrie Mae Weems, photographer and video artist
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