| No Images? Click here   According to Merriam-Webster, Mark Twain took a liking to the "excellent word" after traveling to New Orleans. English speakers adopted the word from French-speakers in Louisiana, but they adapted it from the American Spanish word la ñapa, which is in turn taken from the Quechua word yapa, meaning "something added."  Rhiannon Giddens is following in the footsteps of Lin-Manuel Miranda ― in more ways than one.First, the North Carolina-born musician earned herself a spot on the 2017 roster of MacArthur Fellows, a career-defining prize commonly referred to as the “Genius Grant” that comes with a “no strings attached” award of $625,000. Miranda snagged the multi-disciplinary grant in 2015, as did icons like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Colson Whitehead before him.Second, and perhaps more surprising, is the fact that Giddens is writing a musical. The acclaimed banjoist, fiddler and founding member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops was recognized by the MacArthur Foundation for her work “reclaiming African-American contributions to folk and country music and bringing to light new connections between music from the past and the present.” And she plans to continue doing just that on the stage, by bringing to life the story of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898.  Author Jesmyn Ward, reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones and artist Trevor Paglen are among the rest of this year’s group of 24 MacArthur Fellows.  For all those people out there seeking an artist who’s able to poke fun at classic literature, narrative structure and human foibles in six panels or fewer, meet Tom Gauld.
 “Those of us who are refugees and immigrants or who support them, we have to use every tool at our disposal, including our writing.”Here are two of Nguyen's books you should read this weekend:📚 The Sympathizer📚 The Refugees  Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become famous in recent years for her outspoken feminism and social justice activism ― and she has strong opinions about how the left should regroup after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016.The author of Americanah, who spends much of her time in America, said during a New Yorker Festival panel on Friday that she fears “the left in this country is creating its own decline.” Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick, Adichie critiqued the left, or at least, she hedged, “the left that is heard,” for failing to prioritize and work together for unity.“I think the left doesn’t know how to be a tribe, in the way the right does,” she said. “The left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own.”  In the wake of bombshell reports from the New York Times and the New Yorker detailing numerous allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Harvey Weinstein, Hachette has announced that the Weinstein imprint will be shuttered immediately. The Weinstein Books staff will be absorbed into Hachette Books, according to a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter; its roster of upcoming books will also be published by the Hachette Books imprint.
 Flashback Friday: Here's a piece from last year, in which Claire Fallon explores a truth universally acknowledged: The only line from an English novel more lavishly overused and adapted than the opening sentence to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice must be Charlotte Brontë’s triumphant climax to Jane Eyre: “Reader, I married him.”
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