Junot Diaz

Many Famous Authors Started With 'Novel 101'

Dave Astor | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Paul Bowles, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Drabble, Charles Dickens, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Carson McCullers, Novels, Emile Zola, J.R.R. Tolkien, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Debut Novels, Cormac McCarthy, Books News
Dave Astor

Creating a novel is tough. Until you get the hang of it, it can be hard to do the Proustian thing.

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Finding Your Voice: Advice For Young Writers From A Pulitzer Prize Winner

| Junot Díaz | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: figment.com, Young Authors, National Writing Project, Nanowrimo, Junot Diaz, Teen Fiction, National Novel Writing Month, Young Adult Fiction, High School News

Junot Díaz is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent, Sr., First Novel Prize; the National Book Cri...

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Books To Provide 'Comfort, Wisdom, Humor, and Escape'

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Authors, Cultura, The Latina's Bible, Junot Diaz, Books, Hispanic Heritage Month, Sandra Guzman, Garcia Marquez, Slidepollajax, The Latino List, Latino Voices News

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, HuffPost LatinoVoices spoke with former Latina magazine editor-in-chief and Puerto Rican author, Sandra Guzman abo...

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The Best Moments From The New Yorker Festival With Arrested Development, Jonathan Franzen, Steve Martin And More

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Arrested Development New Yorker, Slideadbigshot, Arrested Development, Junot Diaz, Arrested Development Movie, Jennifer Egan, St. Vincent, Arrested Development Reunion, David Cronenberg, The National, Steve Martin, Video, New Yorker, New Yorker Festival 2011, Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker Festival, The New Yorker Arrested Development, Culture News

The New Yorker put cultural figures from across the spectrum in the hot seat this past weekend for their whirlwind festival, playing to intimate crowd...

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Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Yann Martel, Barbara Kingsolver, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Gruber, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Cartooning, Michael Chabon, Frida Kahlo, Ian McEwan, Alice Sebold, Jonathan Franzen, Adam Langer, Audrey Niffenegger, Calvin and Hobbes, Diego Rivera, Harry Potter, Cormac McCarthy, Jeffrey Eugenides, Books News
Dave Astor

These aren't necessarily the best novels of the past 11 years, because there are acclaimed books I've yet to read.

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Georgia Profs Offer Course To Undocumented Immigrants

AP | KATE BRUMBACK | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Junot Diaz, Freedom University, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Illegal Immigrant Class, University of Georgia, College News

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- As college students return to campus in Georgia, a new state policy has closed the doors of the five most competitive state school...

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Spotted Reading In Public: What's Everyone Else Reading This Summer?

Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Video, Junot Diaz, Henry Kissinger, Angela's Ashes, Summer Books, Summer Reads, David Foster Wallace, William Faulkner, On China, Infinite Jest, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Frank Mccourt, The Sound and the Fury, Spotted Reading in Public, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Books News

After a long, harsh winter, it is finally really warming up outside. And, boy, does it feel great! We're sure you're daydreaming of the exotic vaca...

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A Catalog Of Dirty Words Used In "The New Yorker"

The Awl | Elon Green @ 1:30 Pm | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: William Shawn, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Saul Bellow, The New Yorker, Junot Diaz, New Yorker Stories, Dirty Words, Ian Frazier, Harold Brodkey, Books News

Famous story, here recounted by The Daily News: Harold Brodkey used to tell the tale of how legendary New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn hand...

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Freedom to Make Art, from Oscar to Junot

Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Academy Awards, Obama Empathy, Junot Diaz, Empathy, Academy Awards, Literary Prizes, Huac, Awp, Expression, The Oscars, Anne Hathaway, Barack Obama, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Oprah Winfrey, Joseph McCarthy, Literary Award, Political Activism, Oscars 2011, James Franco, Hollywood, Politics News
Ming Holden

Last night's resplendent Academy Awards ceremony put me in mind of a less opulent affair: the Associated Writing Program's annual conference earlier this month in Washington, D.C.

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On the Culture Front: A Life in the Theatre, Revisiting the New Yorker Festival, and Redemption Song

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Simmons, Junot Diaz, Andy Borowitz, Wells Tower, T.R. Knight, Steven Adler, Joyce Carol Oates, Ace Frehley, New Yorker Festival, Malcolm Gladwell, Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Krugman, A Life in the Theatre, Saturday Night Live, David Mamet, Jeffrey Toobin, Patrick Stewart, New York News
Chris Kompanek

The discussions at the New Yorker Festival have become kind of legendary with events often selling out just minutes after they go on sale.

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Ilan Stavans' Magnum Opus: After 13 Years, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature Is Here

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Cypress Hill, Richard Rodriguez, Junot Diaz, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Amherst College, Gus Arriola, Ricky Martin, Hernando De Soto, Loveline, Isabel Allende, Ilan Stavans, Magnum Opus, Resurrecting Hebrew, Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, Spanish, Spanglish, Literature, Latinos, Latin America, Octavio Paz, Telenovela, Amherst, Anthologies, Books News
Joshua Kors

I make my books for elite audiences, mainstream audiences, families in the barrio. That's not a contradiction. It's a full life.

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The Making of a Novel: How to Stay Motivated When the Economy Stinks and the World of Publishing is Changing by the Hour

Jennie Nash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: How to Stay Motivated, Writing a Novel, Junot Diaz, Elizabeth Eaves, Inspiration, Motivation for Writing, Books News
Jennie Nash

I was invited to give a talk tomorrow to the Orange County Romance Writers' Association. When the asked me to visit, they asked if I wanted to talk ab...

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New Yorker Festival 2010 Lineup Announced: Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Yorker, Joyce Carol Oates, New York, The New Yorker Festival, Books, New York City, Zadie Smith, New York City Festivals, James Taylor, Books Festivals, Jesse Eisenberg, New Yorker Festival, Books Festival, Malcolm Gladwell, Neil Gaiman, Junot Diaz, Werner Herzog, El Doctorow, Justin Timberlake, Lorrie Moore, Michael Chabon, Book Festivals, The New Yorker, Tobias Wolff, Dave Eggers, Steve Carell, John Goodman, Alec Baldwin, Bill Simmons, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

The weekend of October 1st is going to be very busy in the literary world, as heavy hitters from across all book genres are slated to appear at the 11...

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Jezebel To HuffPost Blogger: 'Literary Critic Hates Vaginas'

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jezebel, Junot Diaz, American Writers, Oscar Wao, Ghetto, Poll, Overrated Writers, Anis Shivani, Books News

Over the weekend, Huffington Post blogger Anis Shivani posted "The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers," which quickly became hot on Twit...

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The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS)

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jhumpa Lahiri, Jorie Graham, American Fiction, William T. Vollmann, American Poetry, Amy Tan, Michiko Kakutani, Book Reviewing, Antonya Nelson, Junot Diaz, Slidepollajax, Overrated Authors, Overrated American Authors, Bestsellers, Literary Prizes, Authors, Writers, Books News
Anis Shivani

Are the writers receiving the major awards and official recognition really the best writers today? Or are they overrated mediocrities with little claim to recognition by posterity?

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Voice in Fiction: A Favorite MFA/Writing Program Shibboleth

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writing Instruction, Salman Rushdie, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, L.A. Times Festival of Books, Creative Writing, Characterization in Writing, Junot Diaz, George Orwell, Plot in Writing, Voice in Fiction, Mfa Programs, Michael Chabon, Chang-Rae Lee, Style in Writing, Dave Eggers, James Joyce, Antonya Nelson, Writing Technique, Books News
Anis Shivani

I hope I never see the day when I've found my voice. How is it possible to ever find your voice? Voice is mystical. It puts the writer on a pedestal. No writer worth his salt ought to want that.

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Inauguration Anniversary: Junot Diaz On Why We Need A Storyteller-In-Chief

The New Yorker | Junot Diaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stories, Junot Diaz, Inauguration Anniversary, Storytelling, Obama Inauguration, Obama, Books, Barack Obama, Storyteller-in-Chief, Books News

All year I've been waiting for Obama to flex his narrative muscles, to tell the story of his presidency, of his Administration, to tell the story of w...

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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Secrets

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Rice, John Wray, Writers, Junot Diaz, Books, Writing, Writing Strategies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Writing Techniques, Nicholson Baker, Edwidge Danticat, Colum McCann, Laura Lippman, Authors, Kate Christensen, Richard Powers, Writer's Block, Orhan Pamuk, Writing Tips, Dan Chaon, Russell Banks, Hilary Mantel, Writing Secrets, Amitav Gosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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Why Can't a Woman (Writer) Be More Like a Man?

Jennifer Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Gilbert, Ann Patchett, Lady Writers, Philip Roth, Lit Crit, Junot Diaz, Cormac McCarthy, Media News
Jennifer Weiner

The dichotomy of men writing big, important books about war and women writing little, lapidary books about domestic life is shifting.

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