hahah
― Nhex, Friday, 25 September 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/06/what-im-reading-this-summer-junot-daz.html#entry-more
― just sayin, Sunday, 19 June 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160324187/guest-dj-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-junot-diaz
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:21 PM (6 days ago)
(from the Le1f thread!)
― etc, Monday, 17 September 2012 07:34 (eleven years ago) link
DJ Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Junot Diaz would be a good DJ name
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 September 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
this is just so enjoyable, http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/08/junot-diaz-grub-street-diet.html
― szarkasm (schlump), Friday, 30 August 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Can you enjoy this book if you only have basic conversational Spanish?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 2 September 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
Yes. You don't actaully need to know any Spanish at all
― Number None, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
met him last weekend and he's like the nicest guy ever! also his girlfriend writes for x-men. And she is also nice.
― akm, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
just gave it to my sister who has never read a single comic book, has no point of reference for the geek refs but she absolutely loved it and promptly moved on to Drown which did not move her as much
think for her part ofit was all the resonances she felt (as did i when first reading it) between the dominican republic horrors and our experience of growing up under the Derg in Ethiopia
― H in Addis, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
A grim read:
I was raped when I was eight years old. By a grownup that I truly trusted.
After he raped me, he told me I had to return the next day or I would be “in trouble.”
And because I was terrified, and confused, I went back the next day and was raped again.
I never told anyone what happened, but today I’m telling you.
And anyone else who cares to listen.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 April 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
a very affecting read. feel like I've had the wind knocked out of me
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
^^
― niels, Monday, 9 April 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
just reread This is How You Lose Her, it certainly reads differently after this article, it always seemed autobiographical but it's like there's this dark elipsis so much clearer now
― niels, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
It's a thorny topic, but heard some rumbling from writers who felt that the essay was a way of getting out in front of possible accusations from women he's treated poorly
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
I've been thinking something similar, although it may seem a cynical way of considering whether the explanatory potential of the sexual assault in relation to his later actions is overplayed
TiHYLH is plenty apologetic as it is, gets quite close to conveying a similar idea in Miss Lora, the story of Yunior's affair with an older woman:
It takes a long time to get over it. To get used to a life without a Secret. Even after it’s behind you and you’ve blocked her completely, you’re still afraid you’ll slip back to it. At Rutgers, where you’ve finally landed, you date like crazy, and every time it doesn’t work out you’re convinced that you have trouble with girls your own age. Because of her.You certainly never talk about it. Until senior year, when you meet the mujerón of your dreams, the one who leaves her moreno boyfriend to date you, who drives all your little chickies out of the coop. She’s the one you finally trust. The one you finally tell.
You certainly never talk about it. Until senior year, when you meet the mujerón of your dreams, the one who leaves her moreno boyfriend to date you, who drives all your little chickies out of the coop. She’s the one you finally trust. The one you finally tell.
― niels, Thursday, 3 May 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
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i didn't make this connection but he's definitely got something coming for him if his short stories are as autobiographical as they seem...
― flopson, Thursday, 3 May 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
My twitter timeline is acting weird about him, anyone know what has happened?
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
There were a couple of good pieces written right after about how it's very important that he opened up about his trauma as a child but he harmed so many brown and black women who were trying to love and help him. So again, women become wounded, one dimensional footnotes on a man's journey to betterment.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
xpost Oh, yeah I see he was finally, specifically called out.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
As a grad student, I invited Junot Diaz to speak to a workshop on issues of representation in literature. I was an unknown wide-eyed 26 yo, and he used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me. I'm far from the only one he's done this 2, I refuse to be silent anymore.— zinziclemmons (@zinziclemmons) May 4, 2018
...and many others that followed this
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
i wish the dialogue around all this shit wasn't so one-dimensional. i need to get off twitter. it just makes me hate people
― marcos, Friday, 4 May 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
it's p obvious he's a major creep imo
― flopson, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao is an extremely horny book
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 May 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
like def that kind of "literature" book written by a man where there's tons of sex stuff in there that seems extraneous but the writer obv really enjoyed writing it. which is not to besmirch libidinal motivations in art in general but like, yeah, it's notable
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 May 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
eh i love the horniness of oscar wao. creepy vibe is more from his countless short stories about womanizing professors of creative writing at colleges in Boston. i guess the sister's boyfriend character in oscar wao is sort of close to that
― flopson, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
yeah that's what i was thinking about
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 May 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
There's nothing wrong with the creepiness or the raunch or the excess, as long as you're willing to overlook the occasional weapons-grade misogyny - which I was perfectly happy to do when I read Oscar Wao as a younger, much less empathetic reader ten years ago - I couldn't do that now. Also, TIHYLH was a snooze and it didn't make me want to revisit his work.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 4 May 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
haven't read it for so long i thought the misogyny was the narrator who was the sister's boyfriend and was partly expressed through the "raunch"? maybe i should just admit to myself that i can't remember anything
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 May 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
This thread is pretty messed up
During his tour for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, Junot Díaz did a Q&A at the grad program I'd just graduated from. When I made the mistake of asking him a question about his protagonist's unhealthy, pathological relationship with women, he went off for me for twenty minutes. https://t.co/7wuQOarBIJ— Carmen Maria Machado (@carmenmmachado) May 4, 2018
I'm definitely someone who assumed there was some critical distance between Díaz and his characters, but looks like that really i any the case. Even more surprised because he is so outspoken politically.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 4 May 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
*really isn't the case
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-junot-diaz-zinzi-clemmons-metoo-20180504-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 4 May 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/the-ghosts-of-gloria-lara-fiction-junot-diaz
new story out in last week’s new yorker — I assume it’s yunior and his family, though there aren’t a lot of names. it’s just ok imo
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 8 November 2023 05:08 (four months ago) link