"If you’re a boy writer, it’s a simple rule: you’ve gotta get used to the fact that you suck at writing women and that the worst women writer can write a better man than the best male writer can write a good woman." - Junot Diaz
In 2009, at a speech to Bergen Community College, Junot Diaz described his work as the process of making mirrors. He likened the experience of growing up Dominican in America to being a vampire and having no reflection: “if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.” It's a powerful metaphor, one that sticks and carries with it a myriad of implications for…
