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Praise for the New Book from Gretchen Henderson, The House Enters the Street

We're really excited to spread word of the new title from Gretchen Henderson, one of our much beloved Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows from MIT's Writing and Humanistic Studies program.

Henderson's book The House Enters the Street came out last week via Starcherone Books and is for sale on Amazon.

Speaking of Amazon, while we've come across many great reviews already for Gretchen's book, your eye can't help but see the first Amazon review -- from a "Hall of Fame", "Top 50" Amazon reviewer -- calling The House Enters the Street "A Monumental Fusion of the Arts" and describing Gretchen herself as "a staggeringly gifted writer/thinker/visionary/healer and poet and so many other descriptors that escape the mind."

It's time to grab a copy.

Read more at the Comparative Media Studies Blog!

Junot Díaz wins MacArthur Genius Grant!

You know what's a good deal? $100,000 a year for five years, to do with as you please.

That's what Junot Díaz just just found out via a phone call from the MacArthur Foundation, informing him he'd just won a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, better known as a "genius grant".

But what's better...that, or the Atlantic letting you know you're actually just 31 years old instead of 43?

Depends on what was going on at 31. Either way, congratulations, Junot.

The genius grant follows Díaz's 2008 Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Read more and see a video at the Comparative Media Studies Blog!