Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Until recently, Junot Diaz was just a respectable short-story writer with a day job teaching creative writing to the tech-heads at MIT. Now, Diaz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction author. He joins Kojo to discuss growing up in New Jersey as a Dominican-American kid, and the themes of infidelity, science fiction, strong-willed women, and the elusive search for love that he weaves into each of his works.
Guests
- Junot Diaz Author of "The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao" (Riverhead Books)
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