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Tag Archive 'Junot Díaz'

Junot Diaz on Slate TV

Posted in Books, Writing on Jul 18th, 2008

One of my favorite books this year (and probably all time) was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. It’s a fantastic novel that really did deserve the Pulitzer Prize — I’ve been recommending it to everyone I talk to. So, being someone that loves to talk (and write) about writing and [...]

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Jhumpa Lahiri, David Foster Wallace, and Junot Diaz

Posted in Books, Writing on May 14th, 2008

So I recently finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (which was chosen by my readers) and I loved it. So I’m two for two with her after also loving The Namesake. So I was doing some reading about her and found a nice piece on Time about her.
They compare and contrast her with two other [...]

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Review—The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 22nd, 2007

How I got here: This book has been talked about in a bunch of places, especially the Amazon Book Blog (now Omnivoracious). Díaz wrote one other book, a short-story collection called Drown, which was very well received.
I haven’t really looked forward to sitting down and reading like this in a long time, so this was [...]

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