The inimitable George Saunders answers a few questions for Powells.com in this Q&A. Tiny sample:
Favorite Food: Pizza from Traverso’s, Orland Park, Illinois
Favorite Exercise: Getting up to stumble leadenly away from the table at Traverso’s.
Special Power: Gradually wasting all my once special powers and gradually fading away to a shadow of my former self, then going to Traverso’s.
Read them all here.
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.