Michael Cunningham will be reading from his new novel, Specimen Days, at Powell’s tonight. Details:
Tuesday the 21st at 7.30 pm
Powell’s City of Books
1005 W Burnside
I’m actually going to drag myself out of the house for this one, so come by and say hi if you’re there.
You can listen to Alan Cheuse review the book on NPR. Here’s also the SF Chronicle review.
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Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
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Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.