Junot Diaz appears in the following:
#OneBookNY: 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'
Monday, February 20, 2017
Junot Díaz on the Best American Short Stories
Tuesday, October 04, 2016
Junot Diaz: How a Book Transforms Its Author
Thursday, July 07, 2016
Book Club: Junot Diaz on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Friday, August 16, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Oscar, a sweet but extremely overweight "ghetto nerd" from New Jersey who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, above all, finding love.
Junot Diaz on This Is How You Lose Her
Monday, December 31, 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur Fellow Junot Diaz talks about his book of stories, This Is How You Lose Her. It’s about love—obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. At the heart of these stories is Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness—and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses.
Junot Diaz: Music Picks From The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer
Monday, September 17, 2012
Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz talks about his new book of stories, This Is How You Lose Her. It’s about the haunting, impossible power of love—obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness—and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses.
Junot Diaz: Literary Growing Pains
Friday, February 25, 2011
Josh Ritter and Junot Diaz
Friday, May 14, 2010
Josh Ritter chats with author Junot Diaz about writing and gives a sneak peek of his upcoming first novel.
Junot Diaz
Friday, May 14, 2010
He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Diaz tells Kurt that many of the students he teaches at MIT don't even know that he's a writer. And he likes it that way. "If you want people just to like you," ...
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen: Martha Plimpton, Josh Ritter and Junot Diaz
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Kurt Andersen discusses age, youth, maturity, and when personal feelings about being "grown-up" change.
The Greene Space
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen: Live with Josh Ritter, Junot Diaz and Martha Plimpton
Thursday, May 6, 2010
7:00 PM
Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, novelist Junot Díaz and actor Martha Plimpton join host Kurt Andersen for an evening of music and storytelling in this special live edition of Studio 360.
Dominican-American Gothic
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Cornucopia
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Dominican-American Gothic
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
In the Running
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
The conventions may be over, but the memories live on at the WNYC website:
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Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
The Reading Brain
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
The Wondrous Debut Novel of Junot Diaz
Monday, October 01, 2007
Fans of Junot Diaz’s 1996 short story collection Drown anxiously awaited his debut novel, and it seems that they won’t be disappointed. In her review for the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani praised The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao calling it “so original it can only be described as ...