Report from Santa Fe; Junot Diaz

KENW-TV, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico · May 17, 2014

This week on Report from Santa Fe, Lorene Mills is joined by Pulitzer award-winning author Junot Diaz, for a riveting discussion on race, art, and why science fiction is important. Drawing on New Mexico's unique cultural mix and Diaz' own background and wealth of experience, they discuss perspectives on immigration, politics and fear and how art, specifically fiction, can serve as an agent for progress on many levels. Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named Time Magazine's #1 Best Fiction Book of 2007. His most recent work “This Is How You Lose Her” is a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.