Junot Díaz on Genre & Literary Fiction, 9/07


	Junot Díaz on Genre & Literary Fiction, 9/07

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9-21-2007 10:37 PM

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											By Jenny Shank, 9-21-07
									</p> <TABLE width="25" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD><IMG width="155" height="150" align="right" src="http://www.newwest.net/images/thumbnails_feature/junotdiaz_thumb.jpg" /></TD></TR><TR><TD><IMG width="1" height="3" border="0" src="http://www.newwest.net/images/spacer.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD align="right" class="image-caption"></TD></TR><TR><TD><IMG width="1" height="3" border="0" src="http://www.newwest.net/images/spacer.gif" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P></P><P><A title="Junot Díaz " rel="nofollow" href="http://www.junotdiaz.com/" target="_blank">Junot Díaz </A>gave an engaging reading from his new novel <I>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</I> to a packed house at the Boulder Book Store Thursday night.  Díaz is that rare literary novelist who inspires ardor in his fans</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/why_were_blushing_junot_diaz_thinks_boulder_is_kind_of_hot/C39/L39/"><P>
Díaz bantered with him a bit about comics, then instructed the audience to “always read a genre, because all of the scary shit about people--that’s where folks let it out.  You’d have no idea what our culture is about if you only read literary fiction.  In literary fiction, people don’t even seem to have bodies.  But the horror section is all about bodies, our fear of having them harmed.”
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