Laila Lalami's Blog, page 5
April 15, 2018
April 17, 2018
6:30 PM
Reading
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Common Read
Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods
Kansas City, Missouri
April 11, 2018
April 21, 2018
12:30 PM
In conversation with Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Hoffman Hall
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
April 10, 2018
April 22, 2018
2:00 PM
Fiction Panel: Epics Old & New
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Hoffman Hall
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
April 6, 2018
March 23, 2018
March 23, 2018
7:30 PM
In conversation with Aminatta Forna
Skylight Books
1818 North Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, California
March 21, 2018
March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018
8:00 PM
Reading with Jami Attenberg, Laila Lalami, Morgan Parker, and Patrick Somerville
The Last Bookstore
453 S Spring St
Los Angeles, California
March 14, 2018
March 14, 2018
6:00 PM
Reading from The Moor’s Account, followed by discussion
Giffels Auditorium
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
February 10, 2018
February 10, 2018
10:00 AM
Imagining Another America
The Forum for the Academy and the Public
EDU 1111, UCI School of Law
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California
January 23, 2018
Recent Pubs, Upcoming Events, etc.
Well, I’m back at work after an all too brief winter break in Joshua Tree. I went hiking in the National Park, caught up on much-needed sleep, and read a few books. But now January is here. This month marks one year since Donald Trump became president, and I have a couple of related pieces in print. One is a column for a special issue of The Nation, a reflection on the madness and danger of the past year. And the other is an essay for Harper’s on the subject of public persuasion, where I look at U.S. efforts to “win hearts and minds” of people whose countries it occupies, and why such efforts usually fail. Other contributors to this forum include David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Mychal Denzel Smith, and T. M. Luhrmann. Pick up a copy of the magazine or, better yet, subscribe!
I’ve also finalized my schedule for spring and early fall. I’ll be visiting Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and North Carolina, and I’d love it if you came and said hello. Some of the talks will be about The Moor’s Account, others about Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, and yet others about some of my essays and nonfiction work.
