This week on Intersection, we bring you excerpts from author Junot Díaz's Jan. 22 talk at MU. Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer prize for his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” He received a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship and co-founded the Voices of Our National Arts Foundation, which holds workshops for writers of color. He is a professor of writing at MIT. Díaz immigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United State when he was six. In his literary work and activism, he tackles