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Last week, Maud linked to Lorrie Moore’s classic “How to become a writer” from her first collection Self-Help. This weekend, Nathalie reports on a Q&A with Moore at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.
[Lorrie] Moore describes the process of writing a short story: First comes “some idea”; then, “things fall in from the world” — things that have “correspondence” to that first idea; and eventually, there’s a moment when the story “closes” shut and becomes a “hot house of a fictional world.”
Read Nathalie’s recap here.
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.