Junot Diaz joins us from the midst of a book tour ... nerd stuff — in “Drown” Yunior reveals that his mother had a family before him and his brother was born and that these children died.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz hasn’t forgotten where he came from — every book he’s written explores his origins in some way. Although his family immigrated to New Jersey when he ...

On July 12, 1999, Junot Díaz found himself in a place few ... a young Latinx male artist struggling with the broken pieces of family, struggling with mental health, with his weight, with the ...

Recently, Dominican-American author Junot Díaz surprised some of his readers ... through the memories of neighbors and family. Maria Hinojosa sat down with Díaz to discuss the process of writing ...

I think my family finds it a little appalling at times ... Share your thoughts on Junot Diaz’s work in the comments section below.

If you look closely at faded photos from family albums, you will see the shift ... But when I read author Junot Diaz’s story, it brought me the most perverse sense of relief.

When Junot Diaz published “The Brief Wondrous Life ... Diaz categorizes his stories in different ways -- “family loss,” “masculine stupidity” -- but hasn’t yet decided what he ...

As a grad student, I invited Junot Diaz to speak to a workshop on issues ... ‘The Cosby Show’ was my family when I lived on Skid Row. I’m grieving for what I thought Bill Cosby represented.