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 Se habla español—How Librarians Are Overcoming the Language Divide As the Hispanic population continues to grow—Hispanics now comprise more than 15 percent of the U.S. population—more and more libraries across the country have begun reaching out to the Spanish speakers in their community. It’s not always easy, as those who started earlier have learned. More Advertisement
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The Importance of Being Junot: A Pulitzer, Spanglish, and Oscar Wao
An engaged crowd of 500 people, When Junot Díaz arrived in the United States from Santo Domingo at age seven, he landed in New Jersey, that not-so-picturesque East Coast state famous for having nonetheless inspired other internationally celebrated native writers, such as Phillip Roth and Paul Auster. But back then, Díaz, now 39, who penned this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao, Vintage Español, 2007), wasn’t aware of the state’s writerly side.
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In this issue’s cover story, Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz recounts how the library helped him discover a world he wouldn’t have known otherwise and how for him, as an immigrant child, the library was a place—and a concept—he never could have imagined. Some Hispanics, like Díaz, who was newly arrived from the Dominican Republic, will dig right in and...
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