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	<title>Observer &#187; Junot Diaz: Respect the Comic Books, Please</title>
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		<title>Junot Diaz: Respect the Comic Books, Please</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:14:50 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.observer.com/files/2007/10/sinestrocorps.bmp" />Junot Diaz, the Dominican-American writer who has been published in <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/14/040614fa_fact1">The New Yorker</a>, edits <i>The Boston Review</i>, and grew up in Jersey, gave an <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/general/JunotDIaz/Junot1.html">interesting interview to Newsarama</a> about his book <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i> and the stigma of comic-book writing. </p>
<p>Newsarama via <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/diaz_lets_see_more_respect_for_comics_writers_69944.asp?c=rss">Mediabistro</a>: </p>
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<p>&quot;But comic book writers are like holding passports from North Korea, and when they try to enter the pearly gates of the high literary nation, they're always stopped and blocked and stripped and denied access... <strong>Michael Chabon</strong> writes a book about comic books and everyone's on his jock, but Michael Chabon is never going to be competing with the poor guy who's writing <em>Sinestro Corps</em> for an award of high literary merit. And I'm like, 'Why not?'&quot;</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.observer.com/files/2007/10/sinestrocorps.bmp" />Junot Diaz, the Dominican-American writer who has been published in <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/14/040614fa_fact1">The New Yorker</a>, edits <i>The Boston Review</i>, and grew up in Jersey, gave an <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/general/JunotDIaz/Junot1.html">interesting interview to Newsarama</a> about his book <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i> and the stigma of comic-book writing. </p>
<p>Newsarama via <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/diaz_lets_see_more_respect_for_comics_writers_69944.asp?c=rss">Mediabistro</a>: </p>
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<p>&quot;But comic book writers are like holding passports from North Korea, and when they try to enter the pearly gates of the high literary nation, they're always stopped and blocked and stripped and denied access... <strong>Michael Chabon</strong> writes a book about comic books and everyone's on his jock, but Michael Chabon is never going to be competing with the poor guy who's writing <em>Sinestro Corps</em> for an award of high literary merit. And I'm like, 'Why not?'&quot;</p>
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