Now’s your chance to write a story with Junot Díaz, everybody.
![“I can’t agree that [Junot] Díaz’s success is gender-based; because yes Díaz is a man, but he’s also a man of color. Critics who say that Díaz would not receive the same warmth, if he was a woman, are overlooking the factor of race.”
- Breaking the Barrier: On Race, Gender, and Junot Díaz by Thea Lim[Image via MSU]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcfb59Hs8z1r6xvfko1_1280.jpg)
“I can’t agree that [Junot] Díaz’s success is gender-based; because yes Díaz is a man, but he’s also a man of color. Critics who say that Díaz would not receive the same warmth, if he was a woman, are overlooking the factor of race.”
- Breaking the Barrier: On Race, Gender, and Junot Díaz by Thea Lim
[Image via MSU]
While I emphatically agree that gender is a barrier in publishing, taking out our sense of injustice on men of color is barking up the wrong tree. It would make more sense for us to think about how the barriers we face are parallel, and to try working on the unfairness in publishing together.
“The kind of love that I was interested in, that my characters long for intuitively, is the only kind of love that could liberate them from that horrible legacy of colonial violence. I am speaking about decolonial love.” - Junot Díaz in an excellent new interview at The Boston Review
Have you taken advantage of the NYRB Classics Winter Sale yet? Both Deborah Eisenberg and Junot Díaz recommend The Radiance of the King.
