{"id":14664,"date":"2015-01-15T04:06:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T04:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-new-interview-with-paradoxa-pulitzer-winning\/"},"modified":"2015-01-15T04:06:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T04:06:37","slug":"in-a-new-interview-with-paradoxa-pulitzer-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-a-new-interview-with-paradoxa-pulitzer-winning\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a new interview with Paradoxa, Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz speaks at length with Taryne Jade Taylor about the allure of genre fiction, colonialism disguised as sci-fi, writing, and immigrating to the U.S. at an early age (he refers to it as \u201ca profound fracture of my reality, a temporal and spatial anomaly\u201d). During the interview, Diaz also said that his attempt to write his new novel\u2014which was excerpted in a 2012 issue of The New Yorker\u2014has \u201cground to a halt,\u201d admitting, \u201cI\u2019m probably going to have to abandon it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/review.gawker.com\/the-long-wondrous-interview-with-junot-diaz-you-have-t-1679460526\">The Long, Wondrous Interview with\u00a0Junot D\u00edaz\u00a0You Have to Read<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/notational.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">notational<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview with Paradoxa, Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz speaks at length with Taryne Jade Taylor about the allure of genre fiction, colonialism disguised as sci-fi, writing, and immigrating to the U.S. at an early age (he refers to it as \u201ca profound fracture of my reality, a temporal and spatial anomaly\u201d). During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Ow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}