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Junot Diaz on What is a Writer

By Sonya Chung posted at 5:36 pm on November 18, 2009 0

Junot Díaz writes in O. Magazine about the harrowing, doubt-and-terror-filled decade-plus he spent writing his Pulitzer-prize winning first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

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Sonya Chung is a staff writer for The Millions. She is the author of Long for This World, recently released by Scribner. Her stories, reviews, & essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, and BOMB Magazine, among others. She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, and the Bronx Council on the Arts Writers’ Fellowship & Residency. She is currently at work on a second novel and is a full-time faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University. You can learn more about Sonya and her work at www.sonyachung.com.

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