{"id":14234,"date":"2012-10-07T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T20:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/10\/07\/14234.html"},"modified":"2012-10-07T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T20:36:50","slug":"junot-diaz-readinginterview-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/10\/07\/junot-diaz-readinginterview-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Junot Diaz reading\/interview at Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In mid-September, Junot D&iacute;az came to speak at Google; the 42-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ViMba2PYSQ\">video<\/a> is now available online.<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be running into D&iacute;az everywhere these days. In the first half of September, roughly every other post in my Facebook stream was a link to something D&iacute;az-related; then he showed up to give this talk; then he got a MacArthur grant and was all over my FB stream again; then for about three days in a row, every time I turned on the radio, a <cite>Fresh Air<\/cite> interview with him was airing.<\/p>\n<p>I haven't actually read anything of his yet, though I did pick up a copy of his new short-story collection <cite>This Is How You Lose Her<\/cite>, which he reads from for about five minutes of this video. But yeah, all my friends are right that he says all sorts of smart and interesting stuff&mdash;the rest of the video is Agony Column editor Rick Kleffel interviewing D&iacute;az, plus Q&amp;A from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know whether D&iacute;az knows about the Carl Brandon Society? It seems likely to be relevant to his interests, but I haven't heard him bring it up, even in contexts where it seems very relevant.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-September, Junot D&iacute;az came to speak at Google; the 42-minute video is now available online. I seem to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}