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Dinaw Mengestu on His “Genius” Grant and His New Book, All Our Names
By Mark Mathitakis
Yesterday the wide world learned that novelist and journalist Dinaw Mengestu was one of this year’s 23 MacArthur Fellows—recipients of so-called “genius grants.” But Mengestu himself has had the better part of two weeks to ponder the prize, and after keeping the news to himself for a while, he’s enjoying being able to talk about it. “The past 24...
