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June 12, 2011
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 PM Readings The Different Faces of Immigration With Reyne Grande, Ligiah Villalobos, Sonia Nazario, Jesefina Lopez, and Laila Lalami SkyRose Chapel Rose Hills Memorial Park Whittier, California
June 2, 2011
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
7:00 – 8:30 PM Lecture and Discussion Rocking the Casbah: Morocco and the Arab Spring Levantine Cultural Center 5998 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, California
June 4, 2010
Friday, June 4th, 2010
8:00 PM Reading and Signing RAWI Conference Palmer Commons Conference Facility University of Michigan 100 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan
June 4, 2010
Friday, June 4th, 2010
11:00 AM Lecture RAWI Conference Palmer Commons Conference Facility University of Michigan 100 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan
Quotable: Percival Everett
Friday, April 16th, 2010
The passage below is from Percival Everett’s Erasure, from the scene in which Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison, a writer and professor, visits a bookstore in Washington, DC and doesn’t find his books where he expects them to be. While Lisa wandered off to the garden book section, I stood in the middle of Border’s thinking how [...]
UC Walkout
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Back in June, when the governor and the legislature were still fighting over the best way to balance the state’s budget without raising taxes, they agreed upon a series of cuts to public education in California. One of their ideas was to take away $800 million from the University of California system. When I wrote [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Road: Beware the Echo Chamber
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
What a strange week this has been. The Mexican navy seized more than a ton of cocaine that had been stuffed inside frozen sharks, the Venezuelan government banned Coke Zero because of unspecified health concerns, and American neo-conservatives suddenly developed a pious concern for the Iranian people. Bill Kristol, for instance, wrote passionately in the [...]
June 15, 2009
Monday, June 15th, 2009
7:00 PM Reading with Chris Abani, Laila Lalami, and Rob Spillman Booksoup 8818 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, California
Reading: Book Soup
Monday, June 15th, 2009
I am doing a reading tonight with Chris Abani and Rob Spillman, to help promote Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Literature. Here are the details: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:00 PM Reading with Chris Abani, Laila Lalami, and Rob Spillman Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, California The anthology includes [...]
