Author, MIT professor and Guanabee favorite (teehee) Junot Diaz spoke with NPR about immigration, a topic the Dominican transplant knows a little something about. He mentions, among other things, how being away from his place of birth place lead...

Junot Diaz, gentleman and scholar, will be reading from his Pullitzer-prize reading novel La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao — in Espanich! — at the Americas Society in Manhattan. It just so happens to be Cindy’s favorite...

Finest writer in all the land, Junot Diaz, won a Pullitzer. Perhaps you’ve heard? Perhaps you’ve been repeating this every night as you rock yourself to sleep? He won it, in part, for writing a book — The Brief...

Best writer in the whole world, Junot Diaz, was joined by fellow novelist Richard Price to wax poetic about New York for the 40th anniversary of New York Magazine. Turns out, Junot really misses that time you could walk...

There’s going to be an “Arrested Development” movie. This better not be a trick because, as everyone knows, “a trick is something a whore does for money.” - Gob [Hollywood Insider] Junot Diaz loves “Grand Theft Auto,” killing whores,...

It never fails to astound us how much Dirty Girls Social Club author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is willing to share with the world via her blog. Yesterday, in a fit of ecstasy over Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize win, she posted...

Had enough of Junot Diaz being rammed down your throats? Too bad! He’s been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Excited? Too bad! We [Ed. note: Alex] would helpfully like to...

Junot Diaz won a National Book Critics Award! We couldn’t be prouder if we’d written it ourselves. In fact, we’d be ashamed if we’d written it ourselves, but that’s our issue. The kids over at Gawker who literally hate...

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominees were announced yesterday in Manhattan—where the culture is. (Wink!) Amongst the other finalists in the fiction category was our very favorite book The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. The winner will...

Well the final hours of 2007 are winding down and you know what that means: nothing. Time is a construct of man. But let’s play along, shall we? Let’s take a look back at the seven glorious months since...

by Cindy Casares A few months ago, unanimously adored writer Junot Diaz released his first book in 11 years and his first novel ever, entitled The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, to critical acclaim and, let’s face it, ball...

We’re in a bit of shock after reading a very sincere and rave review of something on Gawker. What was it for, you ask? Why, none other than wundervato Junot Diaz and his new tome, The Brief Wondrous Life...

We are so stoked that the world’s first major Dominican-American writer who published the world’s first Dominican-American sci-fi novel is reading from it tonight in New York City at Instituto Cervantes. In like ONE HOUR! So excited that we...

Over a month ago we mentioned the buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Dominican novelist Junot “Drown” Díaz’s sophomore effort—a science fiction-tinged portrayal of the island’s diaspora in the U.S. called Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Reserving judgment...

Eleven years ago, Junot Díaz wrote a collection of short stories called Drown that, to quote Wikipedia, (something we try to do everyday), “became an overnight literary sensation.” To be honest, we read the book back then and were...