USA Africa Dialogue Series - Junot Díaz with Samuel R. Delany

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Junot Díaz
with Samuel R. Delany
Wednesday January 21 2009
- Junot Díaz is the author of Drown, a collection of ten stories that
move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling
urban communities of New Jersey. His recent novel, The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao, described by The New York Times as "a wondrous, not-
so-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described as
Mario Vargas Llosa meets Star Trek meets David Foster Wallace meets
Kanye West." His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African
Voices, and four volumes of Best American Short Stories. On language
and writing he has said, "I have a sense of the Dominican…it's not
much of a theory, more a collection of words, a dot dot dash code that
I use to […] decipher a larger code, which is the Dominican
experience, the Dominican diasporic experience, and the American
experience, all hooked together. I always lived in a situation of
simultaneity." His many awards and honors include a Guggenheim
fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award for best novel of
2007, and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Díaz is the fiction
editor at the Boston Review and an associate professor in Writing and
Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Samuel R. Delany's novels include Hogg, The Mad Man, Dhalgren, and
recently, Phallos. He is a recipient of the Pilgrim Award for
outstanding scholarship in science fiction studies, and a winner of
the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to
Lesbian and Gay Literature. Delany is a professor of English and
creative writing at Temple University.

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