CMS News Archives
September 4, 2008
From the Boston Phoenix: "Junot Diaz reads a new short story at the Brattle Theater"
Four women from Harvard Book Store stood at the back of the Brattle Theater last night, before the crowds arrived, giggling. "I have the biggest literary crush on him," said one, referring to the evening's reader -- MIT professor, Boston Review fiction editor, Pulitzer Prize-winner -- Junot Diaz, a man, it appeared from listening to the women's chatter, with many charms."Oh my god," said another, "sometimes I imagine just walking around Cambridge and bumping into him. 'Oh, are you Junot?'"
"He kisses everyone," said a third.
