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The magazine moved away from the extremes of stasis and deflection, but it took the editorial shake-up of the mid-1990s that brought Bill Buford to the helm as fiction editor to restore texture and storytelling gusto to its pages, in the work of writers such as Junot D í az and George Saunders.

The Quotidian of Love Sam Sacks 2010

a new anthology of essays by writers such as Junot D? az, Gary Shteyngart, Kate Christensen and Brock Clarke, run the emotional gamut from neediness and infatuation to rage and disgust.

Between Love and Hate 2009

That said, I think the Pulitzer judges do often get it right with their fiction choices -- such as this century's picks of Ms. Lahiri's aforementioned collection, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2001), Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex (2003), Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2007), and Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008).

Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012

Not so much, but it's gaining respect, I think, in certain quarters thanks to folks like Junot Diaz and Michael Chabon.

October 2009 2009

That said, I think the Pulitzer judges do often get it right with their fiction choices -- such as this century's picks of Ms. Lahiri's aforementioned collection, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2001), Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex (2003), Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2007), and Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008).

Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012

Junot Diaz's also seriocomic, also Pulitzer-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao initially focuses on Oscar -- a New Jersey-based, overweight, socially inept, nice-guy nerd smitten with comic books, Tolkien, Star Trek, and unavailable females.

Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels Dave Astor 2011

So, The Brief Wondrous Life of Dr. Wao (2007 - meta sf/f) by Junot Díaz it is.

MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books That Should Be Assigned in School 2009

Not so much, but it's gaining respect, I think, in certain quarters thanks to folks like Junot Diaz and Michael Chabon.

MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2) 2009

My candidate here would be Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), not only because its protagonist is an overweight Dominican SF nerd, but because of the way it opens up into a variety of narrative voices and styles, providing a good illustration of the kind of very unstuffy and very liberating gonzo energy that you can find in some of the best contemporary fiction.

MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers 2009

Junot Diaz's also seriocomic, also Pulitzer-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao initially focuses on Oscar -- a New Jersey-based, overweight, socially inept, nice-guy nerd smitten with comic books, Tolkien, Star Trek, and unavailable females.

Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels Dave Astor 2011