{"id":60568,"date":"2013-09-25T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=60568"},"modified":"2013-09-26T06:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T10:31:05","slug":"donald-antrim-wins-genius-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/donald-antrim-wins-genius-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Antrim Wins Genius Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/antrim_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60578\" alt=\"Donald Antrim, 2013 MacArthur Fellow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/antrim_large.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/antrim_large.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/antrim_large-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here on Twenty-Seventh Street, we are kvelling: we just learned that our advisory editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/search?q=donald+antrim\" target=\"_blank\">longtime contributor<\/a>, and friend Donald Antrim is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/class\/2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 MacArthur fellow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/203\" target=\"_blank\">issue 203<\/a>, Antrim said of his fiction,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It took me a while to understand that in building another world through the fantastic I was making a set of rules that had to be observed, a logic that had to be carried through\u2014that I was in some ways obeying the premise of the very opening line, and that each book would make itself out of itself as time went on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The committee described his work as \u201cat once absurd but relatable, free but structured, romantic but realistic, funny but sad.\u201d He is in terrific company: among the other twenty-three honorees are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/karen-russell-on-swamplandia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Russell<\/a>, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, and the musician and writer Jeremy Denk. (See a full list of 2013 fellows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/class\/2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) Hearty congratulations to all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here on Twenty-Seventh Street, we are kvelling: we just learned that our advisory editor, longtime contributor, and friend Donald Antrim is a 2013 MacArthur fellow. 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