Robert Birnbaum’s latest interview is Eva Hoffman. The two chat about “her passports, living in England, the symbolic meanings of such things, After Such Knowledge as a culmination, 2Gs, Ruth Franklin, Melvin Julius Bukiets, September 11, Noam Chomsky, the Enlightenment, Barbara Ehrenreich, social democracy in Europe, David Rieff, Christopher Hitchens, writing fiction, Cynthia Ozick, students at MIT, Samantha Power, Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures, David Mitchell, and [Birnbaum]”.
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.