Now the Papers Want to Know Whose Shirt He Wears

The years of toiling in obscurity continue to pay off for Edward P. Jones. The Known World was shortlisted for the National Book Award and took home the Pulitzer and the NBCC fiction award, but now he's really made the grade, as the most prominent among the latest batch of MacArthur geniuses. But let's give a shout out to the other literary figures who get buried in the last graf: Aleksandr Hemon and C. D. Wright, who once wrote: "If I could afford it I'd live in hotels." Well, now we're going to hold you to that, C.D.!

Oh, and let's not forget Maria Mavroudi, who's already on a Townsend Fellowship to research the extent to which the Greek language was known in Arabic lands during the Middle Ages. Looks like she's having the academic version of Jones' great year...