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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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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 […]

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Josh Ritter and Junot Diaz

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Josh Ritter chats with author Junot Diaz about writing and gives a sneak peek of his upcoming first novel. From Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.

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Junot Diaz: Literary Growing Pains

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He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Junot 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 […]

Plimpton, Ritter, Diaz

Studio 360 was recorded before a live audience at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, author Junot Diaz, and actress Martha Plimpton joined Kurt Andersen on stage, with live performances by Ritter and Plimpton. Kurt talks to these three creative Gen-Xers about growing up.

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