#OneBookNY: 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 20, 2017

Julie Menin, commissioner of Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, discusses the city's new campaign to host the largest community read program and how it will increase traffic to booksellers and libraries and Junot Diaz, professor at MIT, fiction editor at Boston Review, discusses his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Trade Paperbacks, 2008), which is one of five books up for the community read.

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