If you live in St Paul, rejoice! Print and online mag Pindeldyboz will host a stellar reading this coming weekend. Here are the details:
Saturday, September 24th
5:00 pm
The Turf Club
1601 University Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104
(651) 647-0486
admission $3
For more information, go to www.pindeldyboz.com
The readers include Alex Lemon, Leonard Pierce, Charles Baxter (yes, that Charles Baxter), Claire Zulkey, Jason DeBoer, and our pal Jim Ruland. Be there.
Who is Laila Lalami
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.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
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.