The MacArthur Geniuses Were Just Announced, Along with the Kirkus Review Finalists

Ta-Nehisi Coates won a MacArthur and now he's up for a Kirkus Award.
Yeah, sure, we just had our annual Stranger Genius Awards. But the larger, more lucrative (but less explosive) MacArthur "genius" grants have just been announced. The literary types who just got $650,000 each from the MacArthur Foundation include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ben Lerner, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.Coates will give a Seattle Arts and Lectures talk in less than a month (the show's sold out: sry), but we'll be writing tons of stu