WATCH: Junot Díaz on Myths and Libraries

Junot Díaz joins me on the lastof 2012 to discuss the evolution of the great American story and how straddling two different cultures affects his perspective.
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In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo provided by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Junot Diaz, 43, a fiction writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seen in Cambridge, Mass. Diaz, a recipient of one of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," was named a finalist, Wednesday, Oct. 10, for a National Book Award for his book, This is How You Lose Her," a series of stories about love. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Tsar Fedorsky)
In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo provided by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Junot Diaz, 43, a fiction writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seen in Cambridge, Mass. Diaz, a recipient of one of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," was named a finalist, Wednesday, Oct. 10, for a National Book Award for his book, This is How You Lose Her," a series of stories about love. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Tsar Fedorsky)

Junot Díaz, National Book Award finalist for This Is How You Lose Her and Pulitzer Prize-winner for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, joins me on the last Moyers & Company of 2012 to discuss the evolution of the great American story and how straddling two different cultures affects his perspective. As we end the year, it's a strong peek into our cultural and literary future.

I'm happy to unwrap and share two early clips below:

First, Díaz cautions us about relying on "myths."

Here, Díaz describes how his first visit to a library astonished and inspired him.

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