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Junot Diaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Writers on the Record

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  • ABOUT Junot Díaz

    Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  He is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), Pushcart Prize XXII, and The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009. He is the fiction editor of the Boston Review and teaches writing at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology. Profile
  • ABOUT Victoria Lautman

    Victoria Lautman is the creator, host, and producer of the radio program Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, on the air since 2004. She was a featured interviewer, host, and contributor on Chicago Public Radio for twenty years. She has also appeared as a regular cultural correspondent for WTTW's Artbeat and on several other local television affiliates. Lautman is a contributing editor for Chicago Magazine and a blogger for the Huffington Post.

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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.       
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.

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