Lit Links

Bookshop owners in South Sudan are hoping that the recent agreements to end the country’s twenty year long civil war will mean, at long last, that people will give some attention to books and literature.

Sunday book reviews worth checking out: Didier van Cauwelaert’s Out of My Head in the SF Chronicle, Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore in Newsweek.

Actors who record audiobooks get the star treatment in the NY Times.

An exibit of thousands of passport photographs taken by Antranik Anouchian in the multi-cultural city of Tripoli, Lebanon can currently be seen at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery.

The Coretta Scott King awards, which recognize African-American authors, will be announced today.

Dan Wickett’s latest interview for the Emerging Writers Forum is with John Haskell.

Robert Birnbaum reviews Percival Everett’s latest, Damned If I Do.

Diary of a Hype Hag is a new blog in which author Karen Gillespie shares what she’s learned about marketing books.

Palestinian writer Suad Amiry’s comic novel Sharon and My Mother in Law has become a surprise publishing success

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.