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This weeks catch from around the web.
Junot Díaz: 2008<br><i>Boyfriend</i>
Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Daz reads "Boyfriend," a short story from his 1997 collection, Drown, at the Key West Literary Seminar.
Junot Díaz Awarded Pulitzer Prize
Junot Díaz has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Of all that our zeitgeist is composed, the popular praise for this book is surely part. In this...
Junot Díaz in the Finals
As noted earlier, Junot Díaz is totally blowing up. In a March Madness-inspired "Tournament of Books" played out on the courts of The Morning News, Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao has survived three rounds and the...
Weekend Reading
Thomas Mallon reviews Joshua Kendall's new biography of the eccentric Peter Mark Roget, creator of the Thesaurus, in this weekend's New York Times Book Review. The review is Obsessed (Agog, Beset, Consumed, Driven, etc.) and contains the wonderful Thesaurus-aided comment...
Junot's <i>Wao</i> Wows 'Em at the NBCC
Junot Díaz was awarded the 2007 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction last Thursday, for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. We've got a free podcast of him reading from the novel during the Seminar...
Wow, <i>Wao</i>
<i>Wao</i> is a work about omission, and its power rests on the gaps in understanding central to the <i>fukú</i> which is the book's subject.
Junot Diaz Podcast Now Available
Junot Díaz reads from his 2007 novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," and, in far-ranging comments, addresses the danger inherent in a dominant authorial voice. "No matter how many ruses I use," Junot says, "I'm the only...
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