Wednesday night at 8 PM on Bibliocracy, KPFK 90.7 FM: JUNOT
DIAZ. My guest this week is the
author of Drown, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning The Brief Life of Oscar Wao
and, now, a short story collection, This
is How You Lose Her. Junot Díaz's
fiction has appeared in The New Yorker,
The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. He was
born in the Dominican Republic, raised in New Jersey, and is a professor at
MIT, all of which is both the point and beside the point as regards his skill
at creating wonderous sentences which not only invite readers into a world, a
block, a life but sort of insist us in with an authority built on language,
humor and sincerely urgent storytelling. In the new collection, some stories
which you may have read, we get a kaleidoscopic, fragmented timeline of
characters and plot presented with novelistic holism and integrity, of the
protagonist’s family and neighborhood and girlfriends struggling, and Yunior
himself, the winning character from Drown,
being charmed and charming, shamed, educated, politicized...and always being
both his own worst enemy and his best teacher.
Thanks for listening, on the radio or online, or as a free download from
the KPFK audio archives.
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