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From Publishers’ Lunch:
Grove/Atlantic has been teased for turning a cover credit on the NEW SALAM PAX: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi for a blurb from Slate contributor Peter Maass into the deceased author of Serpico Peter Maas instead.
And Spike Gillespie’s was surprised by the jacket for her SURRENDER (But Don’t Give Yourself Away); Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks from the University of Texas Press. A bumper sticker on her car that reads “George W. Bush Is a Punk-Ass Chump” was artfully airbrushed out, along with other small details. Editor-in-chief Theresa May tells the LA Times, “The image was manipulated and enhanced, but it had nothing to do with the fact that it was an anti-Bush statement…. We didn’t foresee that it would be controversial, because we didn’t think anyone would be paying attention.”
I’d link to the L.A. Times piece that was the source, but I can’t stand their pop-up ads.
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.