Events at Reed

The Community Reading Project presents Junot Díaz, author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Diversity at Reed. Direct questions to Caitlin Bergeon, program manager for institutional diversity. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. No tickets will be issued; seats are on a first-come, first-served basis. ASL interpreting available. [Image ©Nina Shubin]