Laila Lalami Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Stopped by @DIESELBrentwood to sign some books. Find them by the register! Also picked up a bunch of new paperbacks, including @KieseLaymon’s Long Division. https://t.co/DRwV2WYFvK

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For everyone struggling with a novel, some inspiration from the narrator of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum. https://t.co/NPpDFwuC2p

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My first book, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (2005), is being reissued in a beautiful paperback edition, out next month. It's about four Moroccan immigrants who cross the Mediterranean on a lifeboat. Take a look, if you need a break from the pandemic. https://t.co/lEortqX7wS

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How Salman Rushdie came across the story that would become The Satanic Verses. (From my piece in @thenation in 2013.) https://t.co/gEt0Wwk0b1 https://t.co/mcc0ZmtaRI

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So often I think about how Ray Bradbury foresaw our social media nightmare in 'Fahrenheit 451.' https://t.co/XzvqcURzcw

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I’m halfway through this novel and want to say a) it’s absolutely phenomenal and b) there’s new edition of it coming out with @modernlibrarybooks with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and introduction by @merve__emre, so look for it this fall!

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This reminded me of 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Except that the patient communicates through a brain implant. Wild. https://t.co/BONLFI5OAV

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RT @PRHHigherEd: Tonight! Wed 11/3 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET join @LailaLalami in conversation about her book, CONDITIONAL CITIZENS, with Dr. @Anu…

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On a long flight last week, I started reading Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men, and couldn’t put it down... It’s a deceptively simple but wholly propulsive story that explores the interplay between memory, patriarchy and solidarity.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel, but his books are almost impossible to find in the U.S. That may change now that Riverhead bought three of his titles, including his most recent novel, Afterlives. https://t.co/RgjcfvgUj7