Hip hop = Junot Diaz’s muse
June 16th, 2008
What can’t hip hop do?
Here’s Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winner and all round amazing novelist of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, talking to Virginia Trioli.
VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Is it true you wrote some of this listening to rap music?
JUNOT DIAZ: Embarrassingly, I wrote it all listening to hip-hop.
VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Really?
JUNOT DIAZ: Yeah. I drive my girl crazy.
VIRGINIA TRIOLI: You had it in your ears while you figured it out?
JUNOT DIAZ: Yeah. Play music loud enough so your neighbours call the police and hope the words come.
I was down about missing Diaz - though being in the USA more than made up for that - but I’ve been loving all the second hand reports from sightings around town.
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