I started reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao about 100 years ago — or at least long enough ago that my only option for purchase was hardcover and I still smoked cigarettes. I know…
Posts tagged Junot Diaz
Will A’s Top Ten
1. State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey: I love stories that create a sense of place, so this anthology of 50 essays by 50 authors, each about…
Jodi’s Favorite Books of 2009
I feel bad making this list on December 27th when I’m in the midst of two books that are really quite good (A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein and What the World Will…
Oh, Oscar, you broke my heart
Near as I can tell, I stopped reading Junot Diaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao sometime around Tuesday, May 8, 2007. I know this because when I cracked open the book a…
6 questions we always ask — Nicole Helget, author
Nicole Helget is the author of the memoir The Summer of Ordinary Ways (which I haven’t read), and her first novel, The Turtle Catcher, was released in February by Owen Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It’s a…
Book Links: Max Ross interviews Junot Diaz, a memorial for DFW, and books + alcohol
Over at The Rake Max Ross interviews Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (which I will finish reading some day) and the fantastic collection of short…
Holy Hannah! Junot Diaz reading October 29
I just spotted this on Girl Detective (I told y’all she was awesome): October 29: Junot Diaz, “We Are the New America: A Reading,” 7:30 pm Diaz published his debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life…