Pulitzer prize winner Junot Diaz has sparked a great deal of interest at this festival – he is the total package, as they say. He won us over when we first met him and hey said: “Libraries? I love libraries. You guys saved me.”
Be warned that we covered a fair bit of ground in this interview- we roll from the 28th floor of the Crowne Plaza, past his discovery of Margaret Mahy, hang out with disappearing cultural rhythms, drive by the tyranny of the master narrative, negotiate a Spike Lee chicane in a New York conversation kind of way and discover the dream of the unwritten book. Are you ready to get down with that?
You can read what he has to say about libraries here, or read the full story in the interview.
18 May 2008 at 6:28 pm
Great interview. Wish that I were there. No sleeping after an amazing brain buzz like that. Nice writing Richard.
19 May 2008 at 6:16 pm
WoW! What an amazing guy! What an amazing interview. Thanks for letting us be a part of this. I’m really enjoying reading the blog. Shame the festival has ended.
28 May 2008 at 1:16 pm
More great comments about libraries from Diaz in the Sydney Morning Herald.
It starts with “Let us give thanks to librarians…”
http://tinyurl.com/6mygoj
28 May 2008 at 1:24 pm
Thanks Warren, I’ve added a link to that article to our Junot page.