Hector Tobar and Carolyn Kellogg on the literary MacArthur awards

By Carolyn Kellogg

Oct. 2, 2012 12 AM PT

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Join me, Carolyn Kellogg, and my colleague, journalist and novelist Hector Tobar, as we talk about the 2012 literary MacArthur Fellows.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;We’ll be doing a Google+ hangout video chat at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Of the 23 2012 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows, two are writers: &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”PECLB00000161224”&amp;gt;Junot Diaz&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; and Dinaw Mengestu. Join us as we talk about their work and the effects of the MacArthur grants, which provide a whopping $100,000 per year for five years.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;ALSO:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”https://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-schwarzenegger-review-20121001,0,2426021.story”&amp;gt;Arnold Schwarzenegger holds back in “Total Recall”&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”https://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-jc-avert-your-eyes-a-gallery-of-banned-books-photos-20120928,0,549516.photogallery”&amp;gt;Avert Your Eyes! A gallery of banned and challenged books&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”https://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-jc-macarthur-genius-junot-diaz-dinaw-mengestu-20121001,0,2594121.story”&amp;gt;MacArthur ‘genius’ Fellows include Junot Diaz and Dinaw Mengestu&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

Hector Tobar and Carolyn Kellogg on the literary MacArthur awards

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