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Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her

Our master of seductive street-slang on seduction and its relation to fiction. Can a writer seduce you?  Junot Díaz describes what he calls "the shock of representation."

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By Michael Silverblatt • Dec 26, 2013 • 28m Listen

This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Press)

Junot Díaz feel guilt about his persuasive and tempting approach? Find out, as he describes what he calls "the shock of representation."

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Junot Diaz reads from This is How You Lose Her.

****Please be warned, this is an online special because the language is, in Michael's own words, "so fresh, so frank and so street accurate." Meant for a mature Audience!

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