The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures.
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma |
| Publication | World Literature Today |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0196-3570 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2003-07-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Sandra Cookson |
| Reviewee | n/a | Junot Diaz |
Junot Diaz, ed. Boston. Beacon. 2002 ([c] 2001). xi + 188 pages. $14. ISBN 0-8070-6239-1 (6240-5 paper)
IN HIS INTRODUCTION to this collection of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction pieces, Junot Diaz explains the kind of book he was trying to produce. He says he was seeking writing that would inhabit what he terms "the gap between the Real Story and the Official Story," writing that aspires to describe "a world that is complicated and unsettling and tends not to correspond to any individual, nation, or corporation's vision of itself." Not surprisingly, much of the prose in the...
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