Junot Diaz\u00a0 – SUNY Purchase\u00a0 –\u00a0 October 7, 2014<\/p>\n
Diaz is the latest of the MacArthur “genius” grant recipients that I’ve captured.\u00a0 My experience of reading him is limited to shorter excerpts that he has published in The New Yorker magazine.\u00a0 Advanced notice of this gig was scant, so we got lucky with the scheduling.\u00a0 For the majority of his presentation he roamed the stage, and even for the shorter segment of him reading he didn’t hold too still of a pose for my sketching.\u00a0 Diaz uses his fabulous sense of humor to arrive at profound destinations regarding the immigrant and broader American experience.\u00a0 And he made clear that his character Yunior is not a proxy for his own self.\u00a0 He expertly managed the autograph line afterwards to keep things moving along, keeping it from turning into an endurance ordeal, which I appreciated.<\/p>\n
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Junot Diaz\u00a0 – SUNY Purchase\u00a0 –\u00a0 October 7, 2014 Diaz is the latest of the MacArthur “genius” grant recipients that I’ve captured.\u00a0 My experience of reading him is limited to shorter excerpts that he has published in The New Yorker … Continue reading