I first discovered Junot Díaz while working at the Book Fair of Bogotá, nearly five years ago. I raced through The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and immediately picked up This is How You Lose Her.
‘You want to talk about a perfect storm,” says Junot Díaz, holding a Presidente beer and nervously bouncing his leg under a table in a quasi-gentrified East Harlem bar called Camaradas. “This was a ...
The Pulitzer Prize winner's new collection of short stories is now out. Sept. 11, 2012— -- "I'm not a bad guy," says Yunior in the very first sentence of "The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars," the ...
Ay-yi-yi, what is it with these Dominican men? Their hands — and eyes — never stop roving, even as they're slipping engagement rings on their true loves' fingers. If that sounds like negative ...
Now, this American moment. Everyday during the Democratic and Republican Conventions we spoke with a different guest, politicians, yes, including a former president, but journalists, writers and ...
The writer Junot Diaz is back with a new collection of stories titled “This Is How You Lose Her.” They feature several characters from his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz on our arc of disasters—from Haiti to Japan to the Mississippi—and what it tells us about ourselves. Natural disasters, like the Haitian earthquake are not ...
In a powerful essay published in The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz shared his painful and difficult story of rape he experienced in his childhood and how it impacted him ...
Pulitzer-prize winning author Junot Díaz is known for his ingenious words, and even more so for how he strings them together to create a masterpiece. The first time I read an excerpt of his book, I ...
Last month, author Junot Díaz wrote a widely lauded piece for The New Yorker about his experience of having been raped as a child, and how this trauma continued to affect him throughout his adult life ...
Junot Díaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has been accused of sexual harassment and bullying in the wake of the Me Too scandal. Female authors ...
Because we could all use a laugh. By Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Cari Vander Yacht In a Spanish-language stage adaptation of the Junot Díaz novel, the friendship between two ...
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