My friend Maaza Mengiste sends word that she’ll be hosting a special reading at KGB Bar in New York. I would be there in a heartbeat if I were in town.
Quickies: In and Out in Two Pages
A Reading of Flash Fiction by New York Writers
Hosted by Maaza Mengiste and Rebekah Anderson
Saturday, February 18, 2006
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Ave
7-8:30pm; Free.
Go say hi for me.
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.