18. Junot Díaz (Pulitzer-Winning Novelist) – Double Lives/Hidden Culture

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Is everybody leading a double life? Why are great comic books STILL NOT part of the "literary canon"? Would having a gay president actually change anything in America? This week on Big Think's podcast, Junot Díaz, Dominican-American, Pulitzer prize winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao talks with host Jason Gots about deception, culture, and techno-optimism. Three surprise clips selected from Big Think's interview archives spark intense, funny, fascinating observations on who we are, what we know (and don't know about ourselves), and where we're headed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Huh. Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.3	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.1	Delicious.
0:20.0	Hi there, I'm Jason Gots,
0:21.5	and you're listening to Think Again,
0:23.2	a Big Think podcast.
0:26.2	I want to give special thanks to Audible.com for supporting today's show.
0:30.7	To get a free audiobook of your choice,
0:32.9	including This Is How You Lose Her by today's guest, Juno Diaz.
0:37.2	Just go to audible.com forward slash bigthink.
0:42.0	Bigthink is an online forum for big ideas from the world's most creative thinkers and doers.
0:47.7	Each week, our producers dig deep into Big Think's archives to find ideas that are innovative, timely, or timelessly thought-provoking,
0:54.9	and the clips her total surprise to my guests and to me.
0:58.3	Today, I am very, very happy to be joined by Juno Diaz.
1:02.0	He's a fiction writer, author of the critically acclaimed and thoroughly enjoyable books,
1:06.5	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wow, and This is How You L lose her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award
1:14.1	finalist.
1:15.1	Welcome to think again, Juno.
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