Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Like Oscar Wao and Yunior, Junot Díaz attended Rutgers University and lived in Demarest Hall.
Junot Díaz claims that he usually rewrites a chapter twenty times or more before he's happy with it.
Junot Díaz spent eleven years writing The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Producer Scott Rudin secured the film rights to Brief Wondrous before the book won the Pulitzer Prize and all those other fancy awards. Can you say "wise investment?"
Like Oscar Wao, Díaz was way into sci-fi when he was a kid.