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Junot Díaz on the imperfect perfection of the novel and why genre fiction gets so little respect
"The novel duplicates, at a supremely fascinating level, the imperfections of the human subjectivity that produces it." Díaz said. "In other words, to say that what gives a novel its force is that it feels very human, and why it feels human is because it’s imperfect, it’s contradictory, it has gaps, it has all sorts of weird shit.” Whereas “stories are demanding and infuriating because of their perfectibility.” More
(2)Junot Díaz on writing about 11 Dominicans, getting 'lunch money' from Miramax, and the generosity of his readers
A student asked about an Oscar Wao film. Back in 2007, Miramax bought the rights to it, but never made the film.
“You’ve gotta remember it’s about Dominicans in New Jersey so they paid like $500 for it,” he said to laughs. “No, I’m being honest. The shit wasn’t about werewolves, you know? Literally they paid, like, they paid me lunch money.
