Remember that cool vidlit animation for Yiddish for Dick and Jane? Well, author MJ Rose is doing one for her new novel, The Halo Effect. You can see the animation here. But Rose is actually doing something pretty cool with it: For every blog that links to her video she is pledging $5 to the nonprofit literary organization Reading is Fundamental. The goal is to get 500 blogs to post between now and July 19th and raise at least $2500.
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.