NP: a Junot Diaz remark (from an interview)

[Charles Albert]

Without me having to, who is Junot Diaz?


the Pulitzer-winning author of *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar
Wao*<https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594489580/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=slatmaga-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=1594489580&adid=093N377GX7TP137W6D69&>

a great read, recommended years ago (while only a short story) by your
humble correspondent....

love,
cfa

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Without me having to, who is Junot Diaz?  That universal that arises from
> the particular--which one, and is it derived from the artist, or the critic
> deriving insights from the work?  What is an insight, if not imagination?
>  She writes :neat, tidy little laws", and I can dig that; I think little of
> those damn thermal laws myself.  Evolution,
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> “Thermodynamics has these neat, tidy little laws that hold true, and
>> evolution has all these great little principles that hold true. The one
>> principle that we have in literature and art is that the universal arises
>> from the particular."
>>
>
>
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