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II’m a big fan of Aaron McGruder, so I was quite excited to come across Ben McGrath’s profile of the cartoonist in the New Yorker. McGruder seems just like I imagined him to be: smart, funny, a little cocky, of course, but also endowed with a healthy dose of self-contradition. For instance he sounds angry with the “big, rich, white leftists” who were in attendance at a Nation fundraiser, but, in defending Michael Moore, had this to say:
People act like you can’t be a left-winger and be rich at the same time, like that’s some type of hypocrisy. It’s not hypocrisy. You gotta get paid. This isn’t the days of the civil-rights era, where you can change the world with a picket sign. You gotta get your money up.
The profile is also full of trivia (McGruder’s first strip was for a college newspaper edited by the disgraced NY Times journalist whose name has never been uttered on this blog; McGruder no longer draws the strip; etc.)
Link via Beatrice.
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.