Junot Diaz Interviewed
Diaz’s “The Brief and Wondroud Life of Oscar Wao” was easily one of the best three or four books written last year and it won the Pulitzer Prize to show for it. Despite the fact that the action takes place mostly under the oppressive and horrifying Trujillo regime in the Dominican Repubic, and despite the fact that the titular Oscar is, poor thing, an socially uncomfortable butterball of a protagonist, the book is pure fun to read. That’s not surprising when you get a glimpse of Diaz. Below is an interview with him from Slate magazine. The interviewers are as awkward as dropped eggs, but you end the video wanting Junot for a best friend.