An hour with Junot Diaz

I had an opportunity to hear Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (which I haven't yet read, but want to read) and This Is How You Leave Her (which I read and liked very much) yesterday evening. He had a warm, intimate, humorous yet serious manner to him; it was just great.

He started by introducing himself as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic and saying that for a land of immigrants, America is extremely uncomfortable hearing about the immigrant experience, and th...