Junot Díaz & Jacqueline Woodson in Conversation

Authors Junot Díaz and Jacqueline Woodson join us for a conversation in the Barn that delves into the divisive politics of our age and what it means to be an American fiction writer of color today. Junot Díaz, whose work has been honored with a Pulitzer and a MacArthur, joins Jacqueline Woodson, whose books for readers of all ages have won prizes including a National Book Award and a Coretta Scott King Award. From his Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao to her Brown Girl Dreaming, from his activist work in the Dominican-American community to her stories for teenage readers about what it means to grow up black and gay, Diaz and Woodson are writers who know how to raise their voices when it counts. WCAI was a media sponsor for this event.
Production Credits:
Filming by Stone Dow and Lise King, Sean Gannett Productions
Audio by Chris Blood
Edited by Filipp Kotsishevskiy

[@41yearoldnewdriver]

This is great. I'm a poet and writer! Junot Diaz writes so well on the Dominican experience in the US. I really like what he shared.

[@skincarecataloger]

Two of my faves together. Perfect.

[@mxsb1153]

Thank you so much for uploading this talk. Brilliant. Inspiring. Insightful.

[@Penelope642]

I have sat in writing groups and have always been the only Native Hawaiian. I can identify with what Junot is saying where at times, to be accepted, you feel as if you are giving up a part of yourself.

[@41yearoldnewdriver]

I relate to that too but being the black girl in writing workshops or one of a few.

[@AfricanDocs]

Nice read. Always good to hear book read aloud

[@lg231]

Wow I love this.

[@lg231]

For someone who has such a short attention span...that really had me interested the whole way through.