Meet the 'Geniuses'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 16, 2020

All this week, meet one of the local 2020 MacArthur 'geniuses'. Today: Brooklyn's N. K. Jemisin, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, science fiction writer and the author of The City We Became: A Novel (Orbit, 2020) who has received the honor for "pushing against the conventions of epic fantasy and science fiction genres while exploring deeply human questions about structural racism, environmental crises and familial relationships. 

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