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Reading Junot Díaz

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Junot Díaz was inundated with well-earned praise for his 1997 collection, Drown. In the ten years since, the Dominican-American writer slowly, but surely, finished his first novel. He tantalized fans with a New Yorker excerpt in 2000, but the complete The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao wasn't published until last September. It's a sprawling saga that chronicles one Dominican family's passions and pain, from the parents' lives under the brutal Trujillo regime to their son Oscar's struggles as a "ghetto nerd" in New Jersey. Tonight Díaz reads from this acclaimed modern masterpiece, which just won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.

– Toby Warner

Note: Read the full text of Toby Warner's recent Boldtype interview with Díaz.

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