Junot Díaz

Junot Diaz

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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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Summer reading picks

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Thoughtful book suggestions from world-class authors Salman Rushdie, Sasa Stanisic and Tahmima Anam.

Immigration, Race and Hair, Through Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Eyes

From the Austrian-Jewish Lower East Side in Henry Roth’s “Call It Sleep,” to the Norwegian Nebraska plains in Willa Cather’s “My Antonia” to Dominican New Jersey in Junot Diaz’s “The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao,” the immigrant experience  has long been part and parcel of the American literary tradition. “Americanah,” the  new novel by celebrated author […]

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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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Junot Diaz: Literary Growing Pains

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 […]