Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz

Arts, Culture & Media

He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Diaz tells Kurt that many of the students he teaches at MIT don’t even know that he’s a writer. And he likes it that way. “If you want people just to like you,” says Diaz, “there’s a thousand other careers […]

Josh Ritter and Junot Diaz

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Growing Pains with Josh Ritter, Martha Plimpton, and Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz: How a Book Transforms Its Author

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Dennis Benzan meeting constituents

A Boston community is divided over the Dominican Republic’s citizenship policy

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Junot Diaz

Arts, Culture & Media

He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Diaz tells Kurt that many of the students he teaches at MIT don’t even know that he’s a writer. And he likes it that way. “If you want people just to like you,” says Diaz, “there’s a thousand other careers […]