Paul Levitz, who served 30 years as an executive at DC Comics, is currently working on a book on Will Eisner and the birth of the graphic novel for Abrams Comic Arts.
Podcast and liveblog: Coco Fusco, “A Performance Approach to Primate Politics”
Artist and writer Coco Fusco on the critical responses to the Planet of the Apes films — and as critiques of American race relations.
In Newsweek, Junot Díaz reflects on Tokyo
“Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting.”
Podcast: “A Conversation with Junot Díaz”
Genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy to describe the New World.
A Conversation with Junot Díaz
Questions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy.
From the Boston Phoenix: “Junot Díaz reads a new short story at the Brattle Theater”
“Junot Díaz, a man, it appeared from listening to the women’s chatter, with many charms.”
In Medias Res, Fall 2008
Junot Díaz has long been a supporter of CMS, and we are all justly proud of the extraordinary critical response to the novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
