Junot Diaz

The Continued Insanity That Is Arizona

WORDS LIVE ON

Poets honor a Spanish Harlem hero

Holiday Guide: Readings to Feed Your Wintertime Fears

Bookshelf cower power

The Decade's Best Books

Join us as we leaf through the finest the publishing world had to offer

Ruth Reichl on Fresh Air

Speaking of Ruth Reichl, she was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross this week, talking about the demise of Gourmet, home cooking, and her newest memoir, Not Becoming My Mother. The entire audio is online, or you can read the transcript here. (Gross comes across as not being such a food lover.) In the i ... More >>

THE OUTSIDERS

The New Yorker celebrates geeks who read

A LITTLE BIT IN LOVE

Broken hearts make for great stories

Interview: "Alien Vs. Predator" Poet Michael Robbins

After the New Yorker, a real press photo, maybe. The poet Michael Robbins lives in Chicago, quotes both Lil Wayne and Paul Muldoon fluently, and studs his criticism with punchlines like "This sort of thing is why punk rock had to be invented." His January 12 debut in the New Yorker, "Alien Vs. Pre ... More >>

Junot Diaz Drops Your Ass Off in Kazakhstan

After the New Yorker, a real press photo, maybe. The poet Michael Robbins lives in Chicago, quotes both Lil Wayne and Paul Muldoon fluently, and studs his criticism with punchlines like "This sort of thing is why punk rock had to be invented." His January 12 debut in the New Yorker, "Alien Vs. Pre ... More >>

New Junot Diaz Story: "Flaka"

After the New Yorker, a real press photo, maybe. The poet Michael Robbins lives in Chicago, quotes both Lil Wayne and Paul Muldoon fluently, and studs his criticism with punchlines like "This sort of thing is why punk rock had to be invented." His January 12 debut in the New Yorker, "Alien Vs. Pre ... More >>

Paul Beatty Conjures DJ Darky's Deutschland Daze

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

TONIGHT: Junot Díaz at CUNY

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

Thursday

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

PAGE-TURNERS

Two award-winning authors discuss their craft

The Top 10

Odes to fame, guns, and what we should've seen coming

The Best of 2007

Voice writers pick their favorite 20 books of the year

The Ghetto Nerd

A decade after his breakout Drown, Junot Díaz returns with his first novel

Heavy Duty

A Collection of Fat Fiction Isn't as Weighty as It Could Be

Gang Slang

A Collection of Fat Fiction Isn't as Weighty as It Could Be

The New Macho

A Collection of Fat Fiction Isn't as Weighty as It Could Be

Lyrical Gangstas

A Collection of Fat Fiction Isn't as Weighty as It Could Be

The KGB Bar Reader

A Collection of Fat Fiction Isn't as Weighty as It Could Be