Category Archives: Laila Lalami
Recent Reading Update
Blog evidence to the contrary, I have in fact been doing some reading besides that for my classes. Since The Last Samurai, there hasn’t been anything that really excited me, and between that and the usual late-term mental exhaustion, I just haven’t felt that motivated to write anything up in detail. Here’s a quick run-through of [...]
Boston by the Books
I’m back from a wonderful five days in Boston and it seems only fitting to post first (as I did following last year’s jaunt to New York) about the books that came home with me. It was a great bookish trip, thanks to the guidance but also the company of my co-editors at Open Letters [...]
Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
The author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Laila Lalami, is a long-time blogger at the site originally known as Moorish Girl. I have followed her writing there for some time and have been looking for the novel locally for a while; I was very pleased, therefore, to come across it on my recent expedition [...]
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