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2 days agoTommy Orange talks about his plans for the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship
But it turns out the Oakland writer had been keeping the intel quiet for about a month already after Chris Lovely, senior program officer at the MacArthur Foundation, pranked him when delivering the good news. She'd set up a call asking for his input on another person she said was a fellowship candidate. Then, when he got on the call, she flipped the script and told him he'd been selected. It was all kind of a blur, he said in an interview.
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