THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Díaz

Links for the East Side Readers' November discussion.

• Junot Díaz - Wiki
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Wiki
• How it is in Spanish....

• Penguin Reading Guide
• BookBrowse Guide & Links

Reviews:

• A Decade After Drown, Is Junot Díaz's First Novel Worth the Wait? | The New York Observer
• Times Review by Kakutani
• Times Review by Scott
• Salon.com Review
• Review @ hipsterbookclub.com
• Open Letters Monthly: The Long Puzzling Absence of Junot Díaz
• Goodreads | Reviews by Readers (Click on more to expand them)
• The Sunday Salon| BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!
• List of Book Reviews -
• The Dominican Book Club:: Review

Interviews:

• Interview with Junot Díaz @ Penguin Group (USA)
• Powell's - Review & Interview
• After the acclaim of his first novel, author Junot Díaz struggled to write the followup - The Boston Globe
• The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz | Online Only | Granta
• The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation for Junot Diaz
• And the Pulitzer Goes To: Junot! - Cultura Crashers - Blog on Críticas Magazine
• Omnivoracious: Junot Díaz, You've Just Won the Pulitzer... What Are You Going to Do Now?

Media mix:

• Junot Díaz | June 18,2008 - Junot Díaz | ColbertNation.com (video)
• Junot Díaz: Jan. 18, 2008 - Podcast from the Key West Literary Seminar (downloadable audio)
• Writers At Cornell: Interview: Junot Díaz (audio)
• YouTube - Authors@Google: Junot Díaz (video)

• Dominican Republic - Wikipedia
• DominicanCooking.com
• DR1 - Living
• Santo Domingo - Wikipedia,

• Graphic novel - Wikipedia (more links at end)
• Graphic Novels == History

• Spanglish - Wikipedia
• Spanish dictionaries online - Google

• The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde
• The Science Fiction Site: Map

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Lucky Surprise Links::

• What's the Funniest Novel Ever? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com :: Hmm, is Lucky Jim in our future?

• Pearls Before Breakfast, by Gene Weingarten :: I believe someone in the group originally sent me the link to this amazing story. And now it's won a Pulitzer! "A distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to quality of writing, originality and concision, in print or in print and online, ten thousand dollars ($10,000) awarded to Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post for his chronicling of a world-class violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters." (He used to be the editor of Tropic Magazine, the Miami Herald's former treat.) Nice bit of writing.

For December 18th: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett .

Classics Klatch :: For December 4th: Cervantes' Don Quixote. Try the Edith Grossman translation... she does the Gabriel Garcia Marquez books.