Junot Díaz on Substack

find out for myself why others are so necessary in life and not just foreign bodies to be sidled up to.

Good stories are explorations of the human condition; thrilling voyages into foreign minds.

To go back home is to wrangle with who you are against who everyone thinks you should be.

Many of us are highly likely to end up with somebody with a particularly knotty set of issues which trigger our desires as well as our childlike defensive responses. The answer isn’t usually to shut down the relationship, but to strive to deal with the compelling challenges it throws up with some of the wisdom we weren’t capable of when we first en