NP: a Junot Diaz remark (from an interview)

[Markekohut]

evidently "the shit got real" as a friend wrote me when Junot was asked at his Union square NY
Event tonight whether he ever cheated.

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Without me having to, who is Junot Diaz?
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> the Pulitzer-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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> a great read, recommended years ago (while only a short story) by your humble correspondent....
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> love,
> cfa
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> 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,  
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> 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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