"You have different masks, depending on who you're talking to," author, professor and activist Junot Diaz told an audience that filled Salomon 101 Saturday night in the keynote address of the National ...

Junot Díaz’s first book, “Drown” (1996), a collection of stories, did everything right. It balanced an unsung dialect — Dominican slang — against a personal voice; it told stories that oscillated ...