Speaking of Junot Diaz - when he came to Book Passage in the fall, the store was filled to capacity with fans of his brilliant prose.“This is How You Lose Her”is indeed a series of linked short stories. Several of those stories were first published inThe New Yorker.Diaz talked to a ...
“As a grad student, I invited Junot Diaz to speak to a workshop on issues of representation in literature,” Clemmons wrote. “I was an unknown wide-eyed 26 yo, and he used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me. I'm far from the only one he's done this 2, I re...
pieces to the magazine; Angell stayed at the magazine and, in time, reduced his editing responsibilities in order to do more writing. Fiction writers who made theirNew Yorkerdébuts during Buford’s watch include Donald Antrim, A. M. Homes, Martin Amis, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Junot Diaz....
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the microcassettes of his messages, and a glass of water with a small Caribbean collusion: Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat and the New Yorker fiction podcast "There are changes that need to be made," Mack told a gathering swarm of reporters with microcassettes and cameras. Post-mortem: the off...
Junot Díaz alert: • Speaking of the Pulitzers, past winnerJunot Díazhas a short story,“Miss Lora,”in the latest issue ofThe New Yorker. Leave a comment pultizer prizeQuiara Alegia Hudes Update: Quiara Alegría Hudeswon the 2012 Pulitzer Prizein Drama for her play,Water by the Spoon...
The resumes of certain winners are thick with honors: Junot Diaz was a literary champion many times over by the time he won in 2012, while Robert Penn Warren, who received one of the very first MacArthur Fellowships, had won the Pulitzer three times by that point in his life and had ...
and someone will definitely be ignored. It feels terrible to get ignored. It’s already difficult (for most folks) to be zooming in the first place, so you don’t want to compound that in any way. As Junot Diaz might say if he inexplicably wrote a book of zoom fiction, “this is ...
Junot Diaz to bird shit, #MeToo toThe Handmaid’s Tale,piranhas to praying mantises,The Village Voiceto Andy Warhol’s shooter and author ofSCUM Manifesto,Valerie Solanas, crystalizing, meanwhile, nuances of feeling—sanctimony, remorse, grief, desire desire desire, and then to keep us sane...
M. Homes, Martin Amis, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Junot Diaz. The magazine’s current fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, succeeded Buford in 2002. Treisman first came to The New Yorker from Grand Street in 1997, where she had been managing editor. She was Buford’s deputy for five years before ...