Five years after the debut of his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” Junot Díaz, below, is coming out with a new book in September, his publisher is expected to announce on Monday. “This Is How You Lose Her,” a collection of short stories, will be released by Riverhead Books, part of Penguin Group USA. In a statement the publisher called the stories “by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender.”
Mr. Díaz, a native of the Dominican Republic and a professor of writing at M.I.T., received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”Reviewing it in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called it “an extraordinarily vibrant book that’s fueled by adrenaline-powered prose.”