Northeastern University is closing down its press.
Like many university presses, NU Press has always been subsidzed by the university. Over the past decade it has cost the school from $275,000 a year to a high of $450,000 this year — about 40 percent of the press’s budget, officials said. The subsidy grew this year because the press has been struggling with the economic downturn of the last couple years, said Jill Bahcall, associate director of NU Press.
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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.