Just Press Play with Laila Lalami
This playlist comes from Laila Lalami, writer of the recent nationwide bestselling novel, The Other Americans. More
PEN World Voices festival: what can novelists do to help the refugee crisis?
Marlon James, Sunjeev Sahota, Laila Lalami and Maaza Mengiste discussed the subject of dislocation and how to ‘sit in the discomfort’ of refugees’ stories More
Laila Lalami Performs at An Evening With the Moth
At an event with The Moth during the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival, Laila Lalami discusses how she came to write her first novel. More
The PEN Ten with Laila Lalami
[W]riters have to write, even under threat. I think often of Tahar Djaout’s words: “If you speak, you die / If you are silent, you die / So speak… More
Inventing the Past: A Conversation
Suddenly, one day, I felt a certain pleasure, and this pleasure was greater than the sorrow of the therapeutic writing that I was doing. Suddenly I recovered my sense… More
An Evening with the Moth
Neil Gaiman, Pico Iyer, Laila Lalami, and Jonathan Ames tell stories during the PEN event "An Evening with the Moth," part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
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