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Junot Diaz in Conversation

“Junot Díaz has one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic.” —The New York Times

Junot Díaz‘s fiction is probing and funny. It’s also situated at the often challenging and always complex center of first-generation American experience. Díaz, Dominican Republican–born and New Jersey–bred, has a knack for capturing the messy, maudlin, and majestic dramas of finding one’s way in a brand-new world. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýThis Is How You Lose Her visits 61´«Ã½to reflect on, among other things, the ways that literature and politics intersect.

This program is presented in partnership with the 61´«Ã½ Humanities Institute and sponsored by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Fund.

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