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Junot Diaz Redefines Macho

An interview with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By Paul Jay

Junot Diaz, who immigrated with his family to the United States from the Dominican Republic when he was 6, teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His new novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award [Editor’s Note: as well as the Pulitzer Prize, after ITT went to press] in… return to article

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