Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz has regularly contributed both fiction and nonfiction to The New Yorker since 1995 and was named one of the magazine’s “20 Under 40” in 1999. His first story collection, “Drown,” garnered critical praise, and his second collection, “This Is How You Lose Her,” was a National Book Award finalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” and has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award; the John Sargent, Sr., First Novel Prize; the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction; and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, among others. He has been granted numerous fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
The Ghosts of Gloria Lara
Truth is, I never could decide if my mother liked Mr. Wilson or not. I’m not sure she knew herself, not at that point. So what was it between them?
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma
I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.
Watching Spider-Man in Santo Domingo
My earliest exposure to television was a cartoon of the superhero from the late sixties. In other words, the first thing I saw on TV was America.
Under President Trump, Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon
We always knew this shit wasn’t going to be easy.
The Ghosts of Gloria Lara
Truth is, I never could decide if my mother liked Mr. Wilson or not. I’m not sure she knew herself, not at that point. So what was it between them?
The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma
I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.
Watching Spider-Man in Santo Domingo
My earliest exposure to television was a cartoon of the superhero from the late sixties. In other words, the first thing I saw on TV was America.
Under President Trump, Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon
We always knew this shit wasn’t going to be easy.