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Writers Bloc Presents Junot Diaz with Christian Lander (of Stuff White People Like)
At the Los Angeles Theater Center in Downtown Los Angeles. Writers Bloc celebrates this program with the Downtown Art Walk! Parking available in adjacent lots. Grab a bite and enjoy the Art Walk before the program.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer Junot Díaz writes some of the edgiest-- and idealistic-- prose in American fiction. His American dream becomes polluted, fathers are tough, mothers tougher, and sometimes in the New York and New Jersey ghettos where his characters live, there's nowhere to go but up. But don't forget that idealism-- that haunting, relentless stake that love presents in his great The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and throughout his new collection of short stories, This Is How You Lose Her, whose separate beautiful parts link to form a magnificent whole. Díaz's take on the American immigrant experience is unique and distinct-- but in the end, his prose transcend the Dominican framework, and we see that Junot Díaz writes primarily about love, about its immeasurable power and manifold forms it assumes as it moves our lives forward. Besides the Pulitzer Prize, Junot Díaz has received numerous literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award.
Junot Díaz stories turn up in The New Yorker. The New Yorker is Stuff White People Like. Christian Lander, who is white, is the author of Stuff White People Like. We bet that Christian Lander loves The New Yorker. He satirizes that which affluent, educated and socially conscious white people tend to revere. It's really funny and from our perspective, right on the money.
For more information: www.writersblocpresents.com
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LocationThe Los Angeles Theater Center (View)
514 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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