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Junot Diaz / September 12, 2008 / The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot DiazJunot Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008, with his hilarious, touching, electrifying epic novel, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Oscar being a Dominican-American Sci-Fi geek outcast whose family seems to be operating under a generations-old curse. This lively interview about that novel inaugurated the fifth season of Writers on the Record and its new partnership with the Chicago Public Library where, from the stage at the Harold Washington Library Center, Diaz touched on a range of topics in his typically feisty self-deprecating way, including the characters in Oscar Wao, his feelings about winning the Pulitzer, and his reluctance to discuss his personal life.Listen Now

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