Junot Diaz

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• Writers on writing

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 733
  In How to Write a Great Novel authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Hilary Mantel, Orhan Pamuk, Junot Díaz and Margaret Atwood speak about their writing process. If you want your thoughts on writing in a longer format, you could do a lot worse than The New York Times Writers on Writing series, which features short ...
  8 hours ago

• Arts Morning Roundup: Ron Charles Prevails, Watchmen Sucks, Baseball Cards Are Expensive

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 142
  Good morning, y’all! Top of the news pile has Maura Johnston leaving Idolator , and Ron Charles , aka, the muscle at Book World , getting his space in the Style section, goddamit . (For those of you who are not ravenously digesting R.C.’s every tweet: He nearly lost his slot in Style due to the insane number ...
  2 days ago

• It’s Finally Here: The Arts Desk Roundup

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 142
  Hey y’all, welcome to the San Francisco Panorama Arts Desk roundup. Jingles, $20 newspapers, copyright treaties, comic books, singing gynecologists, Fotoweek drama, and Chuck Klosterman , after the jump. - Jack Pendarvis can’t think of too many movies with jingles other than The Lords of Flatbush, and ...
  6 days ago

• LitWit Challenge: Snap Novels

  
  JessicarulestheUniverse — Authority: 476
  The winners of our LitWit Challenge: Revolting Scenarios are. . .infradiggit for postulating People Power III (or IV, we’re not sure what numeral we’re on) leading to an ecclesiastical regime,Roger M for the storyline in which Noynoy Aquino backs out, Mar Roxas and Metro Manila filmfest box-office champion Erap ...
  1 week ago

• What Made Junot Diaz a Writer

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 519
  ... in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasnt until that night when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cover me beautiful.....

  
  Naki — Authority: 120
  SUGAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Nicola of Nicola Book s in Ann Arbor, Michigan reached out to me with this: " It might be of small comfort to you to know that we do not segregate our African American authors, we categorize books based on genre and author, not ethnic background of the author. Nicola I say: Bravo, Nicola! ...
  3 weeks ago

• Judy Blume Feted By National Coalition Against Censorship

  
  Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Places, Parties & Nightlife — Authority: 689
  [All photos by JP PULLOS for PMc ]. Chances are, if you’re a girl who grew up in America, you learned a lot from reading Judy Blume books. The author of “ Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret ” and “ Forever ” has been keeping young readers informed and titillated for decades, which has made her a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Danticat & Diaz On Writing, Justice, And Being A "Nerd Of Color" [Literature And Life]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 819
  At their New Yorker Festival reading on Friday, Junot Diaz and recent MacArthur Genius Grant winner Edwidge Danticat talked about writing with kids, being marginalized as a " nerd of color ," and why its so hard to change the world. But first they read. Danticat picked an excerpt from her story "Ghosts," in ...
  3 weeks ago

• THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES Guys To Adapt AMERICAN RUST

  
  Rama's Screen — Authority: 154
  According to Variety , Scott Stuber of Stuber Prods. has bought the screen rights to the novel titled AMERICAN RUST by author Phillip Meyer , no relation to that Twilight author. The project will be directed by Walter Salles and the script to be written by Jose Rivera . These are the guys behind The ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Stubborness as a Writing Tool

  
  BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog — Authority: 113
  Well, we wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but it is comforting to us nonetheless (and we hope to other writers) to hear that even the likes of Pulitzer winner Junot Diaz suffer that moment when writing just seems too damn hard.  Here is an excerpt from a very honest essay on writing that he wrote for Oprah’s O ...
  3 weeks ago

• Junot Díaz at Notre Dame

  
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  3 weeks ago

• Fiction Night: I Do

  
  New Yorker Festival — Authority: 131
  The Angel Orensanz Foundation space, a former synagogue on Norfolk Street, is, according to signs on the office door, a very highly rated wedding location. On Friday night, two pairs were brought together on its stage—not for matrimony, but for fiction. First up were Mary Gaitskill and T. Coraghessan Boyle, aptly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Links: A Winning Style

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 543
  The nominees for the National Book Award were announced earlier this week. I can recommend two of books in the fiction category: Daniyal Mueenuddin ’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders , a carefully turned collection of stories that focus on class divisions in Pakistan, and Jayne Anne Phillips ‘ Lark and Termite ...
  3 weeks ago

• Writers You Should Read: Books that take you places

  
  College Jolt — Authority: 114
  In the ’80s, TV critic Neil Postman claimed that the invention of television had zapped the national print culture –– that our generation had stopped reading, that we couldn’t write for beans, and that to top it off, this made us “lousy citizens.” Harsh. I may be all for TV, but I am also all for books, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rubbing Elbows with Authors

  
  THE INTERNET REVIEW OF BOOKS — Authority: 123
  An EssayBy Pam Hayes-BohananYears ago I saw a game show in which a husband was asked whether he thought his wife would rather be given a seat in a restaurant that a had a fabulous nature view from a panoramic window, or one from which she would be able to see movie stars enter the room. I knew, even as a child, that I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Betcha by golly Wao

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 424
  Jeff Sypeck spends some quality time with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and finds it stirring up Central Jersey memories and stories. I’m always astonished to hear how many other people have taken that scary trek along the railroad bridge spanning the Raritan River.
  5 weeks ago

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  
  Vicki Lane Mysteries — Authority: 127
  WOW!! I mean, really, WOW! This is Some Book. Dont take my word for it -- check out all the reviews. And then theres that Pulitzer Prize thing -- not bad for a first novel. (Of course, Diaz had been polishing his prose, publishing stories in The New Yorker for some time.) I was going to save this post for a ...
  5 weeks ago

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