Brigid Hughes, who replaced George Plimpton as editor of the Paris Review will leave the magazine in March, when her contract expires. No reason was given for the change, the NY Times‘ Edward Wyatt says.
“You can’t replace a George Plimpton,” Mr. Guinzburg added. “He is not just indispensable, he is irreplaceable.”
Nevertheless, when asked what he would say the board was looking for in a new editor, he replied, “I wouldn’t say.” Then, after a pause, he said, “George Plimpton.”
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Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
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Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
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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.