Central Park SummerStage
E 69th St & 5th Ave
212.360.2777
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Junot Díaz
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Thursday July 17, 2008 (7–10pm)
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Note: Check out our sister publication Boldtype's interview with Díaz and review of Hemon's The Lazarus Project.
Leading a new generation of literary masters, Junot Díaz and Aleksandar Hemon team up for a conversation about the ways that the immigration experience influences their writing. Díaz needs little introduction: though the 40-year-old Dominican-American writer made critics and fans wait ten years for a follow-up to his acclaimed short-story collection Drown, he was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Meanwhile, Sarajevo-born Hemon's newest book, The Lazarus Project, perfects the literary-mystery style launched by Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated.
