Junot Diaz, Hammer Readings

3/17/08 -- Junot Diaz's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His highly-anticipated first novel, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, was greeted with rapturous reviews. His debut story collection, Drown, published eleven years prior to Oscar Wao, has since grown into a landmark of contemporary literature. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Diaz is a professor of creative writing at MIT.

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[2k89boruga]

@TheBoss213 by "kid" and "young" Diaz is street-talking...I don't think he is referring to Chiang's age or intellectual literary ability

[tribeofgaul]

I read this authors works in a CORE trash can course. I really don't care about this guy at all. I am a low class german. I didn't like the other guy before this guy showed up. ITS ALL TRASH. like TEnNY son or zapoto de tenny son.

[theMolecularMan]

madame lol

[TheBoss213]

Junot Diaz calls Ted Chiang "young" and kid". Chiang is actually 42. Diaz himself is actually younger at 40. lol.

Chiang's collection, by the way, is actually entitled Stories of Your Life and Others.