It’s a big drumroll of publicity for the novelist, whose first book, In the Distance, was published in 2017 by indie Coffee House Press and went on to become a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The good news is that Diaz has just tested negative and will fly back to the States in time for a 11-city tour with a series of live events as well as an online talk with Roxane Gay for her book club on June 23. Instead I’ve just been sequestered, first in a hotel room, and then at a good friend’s vacant apartment.” “I was going to meet booksellers and press.
“I had all these things lined up for Trust,” says the Brooklyn-based author, referring to his second novel, out May 3 from Riverhead in the U.S.
When Hernan Diaz meets with me over Zoom in mid-April, he is camped in a friend’s London flat, having tested positive for Covid after arriving in the U.K.
