Once upon a time, the word "genius" made us think not the help counter in an Apple Store but of people of incredible intellect who accomplished amazing things and relied on nothing more than their brains and bare hands. This "Genius" transports us back to such a time: 1929, when in New York City, the illustrious editor Maxwell Perkins at Charles Scribner's Sons is revered in the chronicles of American literature as the man who edited the works of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.