BABEL-2025/2026 Season, 2-Hernan Diaz

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The Believer
The Believer is a quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine specializing in criticism, literary nonfiction, and immersive reportage on contemporary issues. Here is an interview with Hernan Diaz, from April 2024.
The Booker Prizes
In an interview, Diaz expresses his strong belief that the ethical implications of storytelling are paramount, particularly in how narratives shape readers’ understanding of knowledge and truth, from August 2022.
Booth: Butler University
A Conversation with Hernan Diaz, from February 2025.
Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference
Hernan Diaz joins Marcia Franklin to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Trust.” The tale about the world of high finance presents readers with four different perspectives on the same story, exploring the concept of “truth.” Diaz explains why he constructed the novel polyphonically and what it was like to win the Pulitzer Prize, from December 2023.
Diane Rehm Book Club: “Trust: by Hernan Diaz
Maureen Corrigan, book critic join Diane for NPR’s Fresh Air and The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University; Gilbert Cruz, editor at The New York Times Book Review; and Stacey Vanek Smith, co-host of NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money and a correspondent for Planet Money, where she covers business and economics, from October 2023.
Harvard Business Review
Life’s Work: An Interview with Hernan Diaz, from May-June 2024.
Harvard Review
The Harvard Review highlights the book Trust, commenting on the novel’s intricate structure and exploration of wealth, power, and perception in early 20th-century America, from August 2022.
Hernan Diaz Interviewed by Dua Lipa
For the Service95 Book Club, founder Dua Lipa chats with author Hernan Diaz about his thrilling and complex novel 'Trust', from March 2024.
Literary Hub
Jane Ciabattari interviews Hernan Diaz from May 2022.
Pulitzer on the Road Podcast
Hernan Diaz, 2023 Fiction winner, meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Pulitzer board member and himself a previous Fiction winner, in a New York Gilded Age mansion to discuss Trust, Diaz’s novel that explores family, wealth, and ambition.
Community and Local Links
Just Buffalo Literary Center
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Capitalism
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