So how have I been? Well, yesterday afternoon my writer's group book club was treated to a personal audience by author Junot Diaz, whose novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" has garnered a lot of attention.
Mr. Diaz talked at length about the writing process, and how he spent hours a day over the course of a few years to write his novel, which was originally a short story. He also elaborated on the meaning of art, and how it's not there to please people and how it has to be confrontational.
All in all, it was an enjoyable talk, and we all had a good time. The meeting was in a friend's house, and this person all but wanted to have the chair Mr. Diaz sat in had bronzed!
But you didn't hear that from me. :-D
How did we get Junot Diaz? Sorry, it's privileged information.
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