Price: $25 member, $30 guest, sponsored by the MIT Club of New York
Wine and Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner and MIT Professor Junot Diaz:
A discussion about creative storytelling at MIT and Diaz's unique identity as a writer
Join Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, McArthur Fellow and MIT Creative Writing Professor Junot Diaz for coffee and an illuminating discussion about his experiences with writing, the creative writing program at MIT and an in-depth discussion on Caribbean Fiction in the Age of Precarity. There will be a Q&A afterwards where attendees are welcome to ask about the breadth of creative writing offerings currently available at MIT and how they fit with MIT's values and identity and Diaz's writing elements of code switching, raw honesty, streetwise intelligence, second person narration, and themes of power, migration, and diaspora. Wine & mediterranean spreads will be included.
Bio
Junot Díaz is the author of Drown, This Is How You Lose Her, Islandborn, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He is a MacArthur Fellow, and his non-fiction appears in The Boston Review and the New York Times. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Díaz is a graduate of Rutgers University and Cornell University. At CMS/W, he regularly teaches Critical Worldbuilding.