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Three Ts.
What a busy couple of weeks! I’ve been traveling, talking, and teaching almost nonstop. I’m enjoying it tremendously, but I do long for the end of the year, when things will quiet down a bit. In the...
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6:30 PM Hurston Wright Legacy Award Reading Busboys and Poets 2021 14th St, NW Washington, D.C. 20009
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7:30 PM Hurston Wright Legacy Award Ceremony Washington Plaza Hotel 10 Thomas Circle, NW Washington, DC
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10:00 AM Panel: Religion and Freedom of Expression Panelists: Sherman Jackson, Krista Tippett, Laila Lalami, Sharon Brous Moderator: David Myers University of Southern California Los Angeles, California
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6:00 – 9:00 PM Arab American Book Awards Arab American Museum 13624 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, Michigan
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Hurston/Wright Award
I’m thrilled to report that The Moor’s Account has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction. I was not expecting the novel to take the prize—there were so many great books in consideration—but...
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7:00 PM Conversation with Tanwi Nandini Islam Chevalier Books 126 N Larchmont Blvd Los Angeles, California
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7:00 PM Lannan Literary Event Aminatta Forna with Laila Lalami Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 West San Francisco Street Santa Fe, New Mexico
View ArticleFear, Hope, and Everything In Between
This has been an exceedingly bloody and difficult week. In order to make sense of it, I did what I always do: I wrote. First was an op-ed in The Nation magazine. Here’s how it begins: What happened in...
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7:00 PM Molly Crabapple with Laila Lalami The Last Bookstore 435 S. Spring St Los Angeles, California
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7:00 PM Reading and Q & A Caltech James Merrill House Pasadena, California
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7:00 PM Schoenfeldt Distinguished Lecture Series Campus wide read University of Portland Portland, Oregon
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7:00 PM On-stage conversation and Q & A Oregon Humanities Think & Drink Alberta Rose Theater Portland, Oregon
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7:00 PM On-stage conversation and Q & A Oregon Humanities Think and Drink Bend, Oregon
View ArticleWinter Update
I spent the last twelve weeks working on my new novel and reading manuscripts for literary prizes I’m judging. But I’m about to hit the road again, with appearances in Portland, Bend, Los Angeles, Boca...
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4:10 PM The 2016 Jill Harris Memorial Lecture Amphitheatre, Rackham School of Graduate Studies University of Michigan 915 E. Washington Street Ann Arbor, Michigan
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7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Rochester Arts and Lecture Series Downtown United Presbyterian Church Rochester, New York
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11:30 AM Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Norris Theater University of Southern California Los Angeles, California
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7:00 PM PEN World Voices Country of Nowhere: The Refugee Crisis With Marlon James, Laila Lalami, Óscar Martínez, Maaza Mengiste, Sunjeev Sahota Nuyorican Poets Cafe 236 East 3rd Street New York, New York
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