The latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose ... Less than two weeks later, Diaz won a coveted MacArthur "genius" grant (half-a-million dollars over five ...

Junot Díaz is one of the most popular and ... concerns a viral outbreak that creates giant zombies. An excerpt, titled “Monstro,” recently appeared in The New Yorker’s first-ever science ...

My first encounter with Junot Díaz was brief and wondrous ... who can’t even promise his kids breakfast right now. “Monstro,” at least in part, is an apocalypse novel about the spread ...

Junot Díaz wants you to know what children ... until a dark, shadowy “Monster” interrupts Lola’s cheerful narrative. “I was hoping this book wouldn’t just be a comment on little ...

Will you tell me a bit about Monstro? Junot: Of course ... It’s an alien invasion story. It’s a giant monster story. It’s about the Great Powers (China, the United States) attempting ...

Although author Junot Diaz was born ... His next book will be a monster novel. "Not monster in size, but it's actually going to be about monsters," Diaz explains. "I don't know how to describe ...

Junot Diaz’s story “Monstro” appears in this week’s special summer Science Fiction issue. He recently exchanged e-mails with Cressida Leyshon, a fiction editor at the magazine, about the ...

Ledger Live: Author Junot Diaz's New ... "You guys know about vampires?" Diaz asked. "You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There's this idea that monsters don't have reflections ...

Editor’s Note: Richard Morgan is a freelance writer in New York and the author of “Born in Bedlam.” He has written for Bloomberg, The Economist, ESPN, Fortune, National Geographic, The New ...