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On the NYC Oscar Wao reading

“‘You motherfuckas are so funny,’ he said. ‘If I do anything, you’ll applaud.’” Richard Grayson reports on Junot Díaz’s NYC reading.

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Waiting since Drown

“Reader, I didn’t marry him. But I almost wanted to.” The lovely Ms. Baroque remembers a Drown-era Díaz reading.

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Spinning for Peru

Daniel Alarcón & Flavor Flav spin at Oakland’s Velvet on 9/12 to raise money for Peruvian earthquake victims. ($10, 8 p.m.)

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Díaz, Jones, and needing to be two places at once

Any magic experts in the house? New age gurus? Does it take more than a day to learn astral projection? Tonight I need to break into two people so I can be at both Junot Diaz’s reading (can you hear the hymns of the seraphim? the trumpets sounding in Zion?) in midtown, and the New Stories from the South event . . .

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