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Junot! I looove you man. Ive live here in Lima my whole life, im a woman. I love/hate to write, and you know, I want to use this opportunity to tell you

  1. how much you rock, (you already know this)

  2. Ive seen all of the videos of your readings in Youtube, and that has restore my faith in writers. Most of them, at least here, are pretencious assholes, and I dont wanna have to do anything with them, but at the same time Ive received good feedback. My question would be if you would recommend me to apply for an scholarship (thats the only way I could go) to NYU to the Creative Writing in Spanish program. Ive heard you say you dont like hanging with other writers cause you start to compete and writing for them instead for readers, but I also know you yourself have a MFA. What would you recommend? ( im such a dork I dont think I could have my heart broken in three different countries)

  3. I have another question for you. Ive heard you talk passionately about latino community. and its funny, me being peruvian, living all my life here in Lima, I dont have a sense of latino, that, by contrast, I think gets stronger for latinos in the US. Here in the 60s, 70s, there was kind of a literary discussion wich debated if literature should, as an ethical obligation, be about classism, racism, native populations, social topics. Mario Vargas Llosa and cia were of course there, at the beggingng. I know you're an activist. Do you think latino writers should address those themes? as oppose to the shift that's been going on, I dont know if I should call it "postmodern" or somethign, you know, more and more people/writers return to their inner worlds, subjectivity, feelings and such (I myself think Im in that bunch). So... yeah, what do you think should be the role of latino writers or literature in that aspect.

  4. oh and I also wanted to say, that I write short stories, and a lot of them were from a first person male perspective. I saw one of your readings in Youtube, and my eyes were opened when you said how hard it was for you to write from a female perspective and that society has trained us to believe only men have subjectivity, but not women. And I was like wow, man. Maybe that's the reason I unnecessarily pushed myself into writing from a male point of view and I hadnt even noticed. I thought if I write this shit from a female perspective nobody will think is believable... Why wouldnt my female perspective be both "weird" and female right? I just wanted you to know, you opened my eyes to some of the invisible strings that surrounded me, and of course now im working on changing some of the voices on my writing. Thanks for all, you so rock, I know you kinda hate being around writers, but you know, they cant be all the same pretencious assholes, right? At least Im not! Its awesome to finally have like some figure to be inspired by, that's so authenthic and simple and frank and real, which I can finally relate to. Gracias por todo <3 (and please excuse my english)