This was just a matter of figuring out how much linguistic torsion, if we can use that word, every sentence could take before it would snap.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 12, 2008.
Journalist Victoria Lautman interviews author Junot Diaz about the publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Diaz talks about his influences, from his large Dominican family to Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel Texaco (1992). Interspersed with a reading from his latest novel, Diaz espouses thoughtfully on writing bilingually, David Foster Wallace, his tendency for footnotes, cultural identity, and narrative voice.
