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Writers like Rebecca Solnit and Junot Diaz have described the revelatory, and potentially revolutionary, nature of disasters.

For many readers in the United States, the literature of the Caribbean is a familiar one: Take Marlon James, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz, for starters.

Even at Cellar Door, abuse allegations against authors such as Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie have forced tough decisions about which books any store should carry.

Despite a relative boom in Latinx authors publishing, including Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Díaz and widely acclaimed authors like Angie Cruz, Manuel Muñoz, Helena María Viramontes and Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Latinxs continue to publish at exponentially lower rates than their white counterparts.

“Illuminations,” the comic book titan Alan Moore’s first short story collection, finds Moore working on a smaller scale than his maximalist novels but “still swinging for the firmament,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz writes in a review.