Category: personal

I’m finishing of the East Coast portion of my tour this week, with a reading in Miami. Here are the details:

Friday, May 8, 2009
8:00 PM
Reading and signing
Books & Books
Miami, Florida

Please come by!

It was a nice surprise to see that a reader had taken the train all the way from Connecticut for my event at the Barnes & Noble in the Village. Another happened to be in town from London, saw the bookstore poster, and popped in. I’m always amazed that anyone would want to take time out to hear me pontificate. So thank you to all those who came.

The Daily Beast did a profile of me yesterday, which you can read here. For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, the Daily Beast is published by none other than Tina Brown, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor. Here’s also an interview with Collected Miscellany’s Kevin Holstberry and a review of Secret Son by Aaminah Hernandez at the Feminist Review.

I will be reading from Secret Son in New York this week. Here are the details:

Thursday, May 7, 2009
7:30 PM
Reading and signing
Barnes and Noble
396 Ave of the Americas (8th St.)
New York, New York

Please come by!

The Borders Books event was lovely, thought it was slightly surreal because it was taped not by one, not by two, but by three TV camera crews. One was Al-Hurra, the State Dept.-funded TV network that broadcasts in North Africa and the Middle East; one was Al-Muhajer, which is for and about the Moroccan diaspora throughout the world; and one was the Morocco Board, which is also diaspora focused. I also did sit-down interviews with each one of them, either before or after the event. The official news agency of Morocco also sent a correspondent to cover the reading. I was delighted to see some good friends in the audience—one of them brought me chocolate covered coffee beans, which I am munching on now in my hotel room (probably not such a good idea since I have to go to bed soon.)

I will be reading from Secret Son in Washington, DC this week. Here are the details:

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
6:30 pm
Reading and signing
Borders
1801 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

This event is co-sponsored by the Washington Moroccan American Club, so I hope I will see a lot of Moroccan Americans there!

Just a quick update for those of you who might be interested. I did an interview with Cameron Martin for the Barnes & Noble Review a few weeks ago and it’s now available online. I was happily surprised to see that they got Joe Ciardiello to do a caricature.

I also did a live radio interview earlier today with the amazing Kojo Nnamdi on WAMU here in DC. You can listen to the show here.

For those of you who are on Facebook, you might be interested to know that my wonderful publisher has set up a fan page there, which you can join if you like.

Now I am in my hotel room, answering email and fighting with the thermostat.

I’ll post information about tomorrow’s reading shortly.