As a kid I was that literal, thinking I lived in fiction, so let me write it. It started there, and it seems it’s going to end there.
In a conversation excerpted from Upstairs at the Strand, Junot Diaz and Hilton Als touch deftly on such subjects as masculinity and its relations to queerness; the failure of realism to capture the truth; the trials of artistic expression in and around Latino culture; familial rejection; and self-deprecating voices in your head.
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