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BOOKED SOLID: A New Canaan Library Podcast for Adventurous Readers Across All GenresThe Dream Hotel by Laila LalamiThis month, Kathleen and James look at a troubling vision of the near future in Laila Lalami's riveting book, The Dream Hotel. Join our hosts for a discussion on technology, surveillance, and the challenges of writing speculative fiction. Please take our survey to help us make Booked Solid even better! Let us
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2026-02-2447 min
SWR Kultur lesenswert - LiteraturVon Technokratie und Widerstand
Womöglich begreifen wir alle erst jetzt – und natürlich viel zu spät – das Ausmaß, mit dem die großen Tech-Firmen von unserem Leben Besitz ergriffen haben.
Gerade deshalb kommt der neue Roman von Laila Lalami genau zur rechten Zeit. Er entwirft eine dunkle Zukunftsvision, die der Gegenwart erschreckend ähnelt.
In dieser Zukunft – wir sind in Amerika – stellt ein Unternehmen namens Dreamcloud Hirnimplantate her, die besseren Schlaf versprechen, insgeheim aber Traumdaten sammeln, die darüber mitbestimmen, ob die sogenannte Risikobewertungsbehörde Individuen für Gefahrenträger hält.
In den Fängen des Systems
Wer als Risikofaktor gilt, wird kurzerhan...
2026-02-0604 min
Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book LoversMarrie Stone's BEST OF 2025Last year, I compiled my first-ever “Best Of the Year” show. It was such fun to make, and received such a great response from listeners, that I decided to make it an annual tradition. While I could only include a handful of authors from the past year, this episode provies a fun Whitman’s Sampler of the kinds of conversations available in our archives.Listen as Adam Johnson, Wally Lamb, and Chris Whitaker tell us where their stories come from. Laila Lalami teaches us to read like a writer. Amy Bloom and Bruce Holsinger offer their thoughts on rev...
2025-12-291h 09Writers on WritingMarrie Stone's BEST OF 2025Last year, I compiled my first-ever “Best Of the Year” show. It was such fun to make, and received such a great response from listeners, that I decided to make it an annual tradition. While I could only include a handful of authors from the past year, this episode provies a fun Whitman’s Sampler of the kinds of conversations available in our archives.Listen as Adam Johnson, Wally Lamb, and Chris Whitaker tell us where their stories come from. Laila Lalami teaches us to read like a writer. Amy Bloom and Bruce Holsinger offer their thoughts on rev...
2025-12-291h 09
The Coode Street PodcastEpisode 714: The Year in Books with James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Alex PierceFor our year-end discussion of 2025 books, we’re joined by Locus reviewers Ian Mond and Alex Pierce, and distinguished critic and novelist James Bradley. As usual, we mention a lot of authors and titles, and probably forget to mention many deserving others. But you’ll no doubt find some suggestions you hadn’t thought of, and some of our usual digressions about familiar questions of genre, literary ambition, and books that at least some of us think have been overlooked.
Alex's list
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud
Claire North, Slow Gods
Darkly Lem, Transmentation | Transgression
EJ Swift, When There A...
2025-12-281h 32
The Book Up with Verdell Walker | Book Reviews & Book RecsBook Review: "The Dream Hotel" by Laila Lalami | Dystopian Literary FictionLove books? Looking for honest book reviews and book recs? You've come to the right podcast to find your next literary love story.Today’s book is "The Dream Hotel" by Laila Lalami. This dystopian literary novel is about one woman's fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance - and can be used against you. If you’d like to read it, you can purchase a copy: Bookshop.org | Amazon (Using Apple Podcasts on desktop and can’t click? Copy/paste this link into your browser: https://book...
2025-09-0910 min
So You Want to be a WriterWriting Podcast Episode 679: Laila Lalami discusses her latest novel, 'The Dream Hotel'What if you could be locked away simply for having disturbing dreams? That’s part of the premise in internationally acclaimed author Laila Lalami’s latest novel, The Dream Hotel. In this episode, Laila discusses the themes that inspired and eventually mirrored her book, along with her background in writing, her daily routine, writing tips and more. 00:00 Welcome04:50 Writing tip: Avoid clichés!07:58 WIN!: A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan09:35 Word of the week: ‘Apophenia’10:03 Writer in residence: Laila Lalami11:02 Laila outlines The Dream Hotel12:17 Speculative Fiction and real-world parallels14:20 The langua...
2025-09-0144 min
All Of ItImal Gnawa Performs Live[REBROADCAST from May. 9, 2025] Our April Get Lit book club pick, The Dream Hotel, comes from Moroccan author Laila Lalami and its protagonist is the daughter of Moroccan immigrants to the United States. At Lalami's request, we closed our event with music from Morocco as well. Hear performances from New York-based band Imal Gnawa and conversation with bandleader Atlas Phoenix.
2025-08-0816 minAll Of ItLaila Lalami's 'The Dream Hotel'[REBROADCAST from May. 9, 2025] Author Laila Lalami discusses her new book, The Dream Hotel, which follows a woman detained after an AI algorithm analyzes her dreams and determines she's at risk of harming her husband. The novel was our April selection for our Get Lit with All Of It book club.
2025-08-0832 min
Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing, Life & CreativityTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minBooks & Writers: Novelists, Screenwriters, Poets, Journalists, Playwrights, Non-fiction Writers & Showrunners Talk Writing, Creativity & The Creative ProcessTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minStories, Poems & Music - The Creative Process: Novelists, Poets, Non-fiction Writers, Musicians, Screenwriters, Playwrights & Journalists on WritingTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minEducation, The Creative Process: Educators, Writers, Artists, Activists Talk Teachers, Schools & CreativityTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minAI & The Future of Humanity: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, VR, Algorithm, Automation, ChatBPT, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Big Data, IoT, Social Media, CGI, Generative-AI, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science, Quantum Computing: The Creative Process InterviewsTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minTech, Innovation & Society - The Creative Process: Technology, AI, Software, Future, Economy, Science, Engineering & Robotics InterviewsTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minPhilosophy, Ideas, Critical Thinking, Ethics & Morality: The Creative Process: Philosophers, Writers, Educators, Creative Thinkers, Spiritual Leaders, Environmentalists & BioethicistsTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minFeminism, Women’s Stories: The Creative Process: Empowering Stories, Inspiring Women, Gender Equality, Women's Rights & EmpowermentTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 minSocial Justice & Activism - The Creative Process - Activists, Environmental, Indigenous Groups, Artists and Writers Talk Diversity, Equity and inclusionTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks...
2025-06-2241 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, SustainabilityTHE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMIWhat happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, privacy, and the security state.In this episode of Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talk...
2025-06-2241 min
Book Squad GoalsBSG #107: Reading: Do You? With Jenna / The Dream Hotel by Laila LalamiIt’s time to read with (?) Jenna again! Join us for a discussion of The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami. We talk about surveillance, the unfortunate parallels to our present moment, the novel’s structure, the characters, and of course, Jenna Bush Hagar and her book club antics. Then we dig into some listener feedback and chat about what’s up next! Watch The Wedding Banquet and tune in on June 24th for our next Othersode featuring Susie Dumond, author of Bed and Breakup! Then read along with us for our next Bookpisode on Megan Abbott’s new novel, El Dorado D...
2025-06-111h 06
The Novel TeaHome Fire by Kamila Shamsie: convictions and pentadsNeha and Shruti discuss Home Fire, a retelling of Antigone set in the present day that explores questions of family, loyalty, beliefs, and legacy. We share some background about Sophocles' Antigone to help ground the discussion, discuss the parts of the novel that we loved, and share some of our issues with its construction. And as always, we share book recommendations in our Shelf Discovery segment for readers who liked different aspects of Home Fire.Shelf Discovery:The Other Americans by Laila LalamiCirce by Madeline MillerSong of Achilles...
2025-05-2859 min
Behind the Mic With Kirkus ReviewsTHE DREAM HOTEL by Laila Lalami, read by Frankie Corzo, Barton CaplanHost Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff talk about Laila Lalami’s dystopian novel, set in an uncomfortably near future. It’s narrated by an exceptional Frankie Corzo, who voices an innocent woman incarcerated for her dreams. Much of the narrative is the protagonist Sara’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions. The novel is reminiscent of Kafka and Orwell, had they lived in the Internet Age. Sara and her cohorts’ mysterious plight seem frighteningly possible. This eloquently written, Earphones Award-winning audiobook lingers with the listener.
Read our review of the audiobook at our website
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2025-05-1306 minAll Of ItImal Gnawa Performs (Get Lit)Our April Get Lit book club pick, The Dream Hotel, comes from Moroccan author Laila Lalami and its protagonist is the daughter of Moroccan immigrants to the United States. At Lalami's request, we closed our event with music from Morocco as well. Hear performances from New York-based band Imal Gnawa and conversation with bandleader Atlas Phoenix.
2025-05-0917 minAll Of ItGet Lit: Laila Lalami on 'The Dream Hotel'Author Laila Lalami discusses her new book, The Dream Hotel, which follows a woman detained after an AI algorithm analyzes her dreams and determines she's at risk of harming her husband. The novel was our April selection for our Get Lit with All Of It book club.
2025-05-0932 min
KQED's ForumNight of Ideas: Author Laila Lalami on her Dystopian 'Dream Hotel'Laila Lalami’s new novel, “The Dream Hotel,” imagines a dystopian future where even our dreams are under surveillance. AI tools can scan our dreams to determine whether we’re likely to commit a crime, then we’re sent away to so-called “retention centers” to be monitored in the name of “safety.” Mina sat down with Lalami in April at Night of Ideas in San Francisco to talk about the timeliness and inspiration behind her story about a Los Angeles mother, caught in a web of government surveillance, detainment without charges and AI tools. We’ll hear that conversation.
Gu...
2025-05-0257 minAll Of ItAuthor Laila Lalami Previews This Month's 'Get Lit' Book[REBROADCAST FROM April 10, 2025] In the new novel The Dream Hotel, one woman’s dreams are analyzed by AI, interpreted, and used against her.The novel is the first work of speculative fiction from acclaimed author Laila Lalami. It follows a woman named Sarah, who is detained by members of the Risk Assessment Administration. They claim that her dreams reveal that she is likely about to harm her own husband, a man she loves dearly. We’ve selected The Dream Hotel as our April Get Lit with All Of It Book Club selection, and Laila Lalami discusses the novel in a pr...
2025-05-0113 min
Bookends with Mattea RoachWhat if your dreams could land you in jail?In The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami imagines a world where the government has access to data about people's dreams … and uses it to decide if someone is likely to commit a crime. When Laila's protagonist, Sara, is flagged as high risk, she’s sent to a retention centre and subjected to constant surveillance. Laila talks to Mattea Roach about her interest in dreams, the dangers of invisible data collection and her multilingual journey to writing. If you enjoyed this conversation, check out these episodes:We can still avoid a tech dystopia — here’s howNnedi...
2025-04-2736 min
The Book Maven: A Literary RevueReclaiming Our Dreams with Laila LalamiTwo more episodes to go in season two! For this one, Bethanne sits down with Laila Lalami to discuss the impact of technology on identity and how we are catering ourselves towards algorithms, the role of community in freedom, and the relationship between privacy, dreams, and personal integrity. You can buy The Dream Hotel wherever books are sold.George Orwell makes another appearance on the TBM podcast, this time with his novel 1984. Will Bethanne let another Orwell book live in the canon, or will she kick this ‘mother of dystopian novels’ out for good?Can Beth...
2025-04-1129 min
The Book Maven: A Literary RevueReclaiming Our Dreams with Laila LalamiTwo more episodes to go in season two! For this one, Bethanne sits down with Laila Lalami to discuss the impact of technology on identity and how we are catering ourselves towards algorithms, the role of community in freedom, and the relationship between privacy, dreams, and personal integrity. You can buy The Dream Hotel wherever books are sold.George Orwell makes another appearance on the TBM podcast, this time with his novel 1984. Will Bethanne let another Orwell book live in the canon, or will she kick this ‘mother of dystopian novels’ out for good?Can Beth...
2025-04-1129 min
NPR's Book of the DayTwo new novels explore a world where technology has even greater access to our mindsTwo new novels explore technology's increasing access to our most intimate thoughts. First, the protagonist in The Mechanics of Memory can't remember her last year. Hope has found herself in a too-perfect mental health facility where she participates in questionable treatment, some involving virtual reality. Audrey Lee's novel follows Hope as she slowly starts to recall pieces of her life and questions what to believe. In today's episode, Lee joins Here & Now's Scott Tong for a conversation about memory and identity – and the extent to which our memories are malleable. Then, a new book by Laila Lalami imagines a world in...
2025-04-1119 minAll Of ItGet Lit Preview: 'The Dream Hotel' by Laila LalamiThe new novel The Dream Hotel is the first work of speculative fiction from acclaimed author Laila Lalami. It follows a woman named Sarah, who is detained by members of the Risk Assessment Administration, which probes people’s dreams with Artificial Intelligence. They claim that Sarah’s dreams reveal that she is likely to harm her own husband, a man she loves dearly. The Dream Hotel is our April Get Lit with All Of It Book Club selection, and Laila Lalami discusses the novel in a preview conversation ahead of our May 6 event. To find out how to borrow your...
2025-04-1013 min
The BookshelfFolk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in GuatemalaCassie McCullagh is on leave this week, so Kate Evans and guests read Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Rachel Morton’s The Sun was Electric Light (with interview extracts from Lucy Rose on body horror and Cumbrian folk traditions, and from Rachel Morton on her move from poetry to prose).BOOKS Rachel Morton, The Sun was Electric Light, UQP Lucy Rose, The Lamb, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel, Bloomsbury GUESTS Roanna Gonsalves, writer, academic, teacher of creative writing. Her collect...
2025-04-101h 13
The Book ShowLaila Lalami, Steven MinOn and Madeleine Ryan on mining dreams, a walking corpse and a very bad dayAward-winning Moroccan American author Laila Lalami imagines a world where the most intimate aspects of life are mined for data in her speculative fiction, The Dream Hotel. Australian Chinese writer Steve MinOn goes on a generational discovery tour with a corpse in his debut novel First Name Second Name. And Madeleine Ryan's The Knowing reflects on the anxieties of modern life and ambition.
2025-03-2354 min
SAM&PAM's Book RadarIs Your Mind Safe? Analyzing "The Dream Hotel" by Laila Lalami: AI, Privacy & the FutureStep into a chillingly plausible future with "The Dream Hotel" by the acclaimed Laila Lalami (published 2025), a powerful work of fiction that will leave you questioning the very nature of freedom and surveillance. available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3DFl63s[Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create]Imagine a world where your dreams can be used against you. In Laila Lalami's thought-provoking novel, Sara Hussein finds herself detained in a "retention facility" called Madison, not for a crime she committed, but because an algorithm has flagged her as an "imminent risk"...
2025-03-1015 min
Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through BooksLoLT: The ‘Order Up’ Word Game and Two New BooksIn this episode, we get excited about three new books: The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler & Katy Derbyshire (translation) and The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami. Then Mel recommends starting the day with the new word game ‘Order Up.Links
The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler, Katy Derbyshire (translator)
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (translator)
The Field by Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (translator)
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Order Up
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2025-03-0713 min
Poured OverLaila Lalami on THE DREAM HOTEL The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami is an engrossing, dire and dystopian story about authoritarianism, survival and the fight for privacy in a surveillance state. Lalami joins us to talk about the idea that inspired the novel, worldbuilding, creating her characters and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
2025-03-0456 min
Fully Booked by Kirkus ReviewsBest March Books With Laila LalamiOn our Best March Books episode, Kirkus’ editors share their top titles for the month. Then Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami joins us to discuss her latest novel, The Dream Hotel (Pantheon, March 4). Kirkus: “A woman is detained under an American regime where even dreams are being surveilled….An engrossing and troubling dystopian tale” (starred review).
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2025-03-0447 min
Savor This Breakthrough Full Audiobook — Perfect Between Meetings.The Dream Hotel by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/143022to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Dream Hotel
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Frankie Corzo, Barton Caplan
Format: mp3
Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
Release date: 03-04-25
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 177 ratings
Genres: Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For hi...
2025-03-0411h 42
Speaking Out of PlaceA Conversation with Laila Lalami on The Dream Hotel: dreaming beyond the algorithmic stateToday on Speaking Out of Place I talk with award-winning novelist Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel. What happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in a precarious world where sleep-enhancing devices and algorithms provide the tools and formulae for making one’s unconscious a witness to one’s possible waking life, this novel touches on a myriad of political, philosophical, and moral concerns as they particularly connect to issues of gender, race, ethni...
2025-03-0441 minWriters on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book LoversLaila Lalami, author of THE DREAM HOTELLaila Lalami’s fifth novel, The Dream Hotel, is a dystopian story for our time. Set in Los Angeles in the near-distant future, the novel follows Sara –– a museum archivist and mother — who just landed at LAX from London and is retained by the Risk Assessment Administration for a crime they believe she might commit based on data and algorithms the government uses to track its citizens through their dreams. Lalami, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, has been hailed a “maestra of literary fiction” by NPR. She joins Marrie Stone to talk about writing dystopian fic...
2025-02-2458 minWriters on WritingLaila Lalami, author of THE DREAM HOTELLaila Lalami’s fifth novel, The Dream Hotel, is a dystopian story for our time. Set in Los Angeles in the near-distant future, the novel follows Sara –– a museum archivist and mother — who just landed at LAX from London and is retained by the Risk Assessment Administration for a crime they believe she might commit based on data and algorithms the government uses to track its citizens through their dreams. Lalami, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, has been hailed a “maestra of literary fiction” by NPR. She joins Marrie Stone to talk about writing dystopian fic...
2025-02-2458 min
Your BIPOC Writing CoachLaila Lalami Had to Decolonize Her Language In Order to Write Her StoriesOn episode 42 of the podcast, we have award-winning author Laila Lalami on the show, discussing her powerful novel, The Other Americans. The Other Americans was a finalist for the National Book Awards.
Laila is the author of several award-winning novels including, The Moor's Account and Secret Son. A native of Morocco, Laila is a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside.
On the show Laila talks about her rigorous research and writing process for her novels, why she had to decolonize her writing voice, immigration, and who belongs in America.
Thi...
2024-11-1842 minThe Novel TeaThe Other Americans by Laila Lalami : memory and protectionIn this episode, Shruti and Neha discuss The Other Americans by Laila Lalami, a novel about an immigrant family that includes a romance, family drama, and a mystery. After a quick discussion of the It Ends With Us drama, we share a quick summary and dive into some themes we noticed in The Other Americans, including memory, regret, and protection. We talk about some of the key relationships and conflicts, major plot points, and Lalami's writing style.Shelf DiscoveryThe Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
2024-10-0248 min
Unburied BooksSeason of Migration to the North with Laila LalamiAuthor Laila Lalami joins us to discuss Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North translated from Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies. We talk about the book's postcolonial themes, its treatment of women's roles, and transformation of the Western canon.
Read more about our guest's work here: https://lailalalami.com/
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2024-03-1945 min
The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library EventsLaila Lalami discusses The Other AmericansPulitzer Prize finalist and former Seattle Reads author Lalami will talk about her new book, The Other Americans.ABOUT THE BOOK: Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui’s daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she’d left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose...
2023-09-1553 minThe Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library EventsLaila Lalami reads from her new novel 'The Moor’s Account'In 1527, Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from Spain with a crew of 500, intending to claim for the Spanish crown what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. But the expedition met with storms, disease, starvation, hostile natives, and within a year there were only four survivors, including the young explorer Andres Dorantes and his slave, Estebanico.After six years of enslavement by Native Americans, the four men escaped and wandered through what is now Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Lalami captures Estebanico's voice and vision, giving an alternate narrative for the famed expedition. Black men played a significant...
2023-09-1557 min
Ein BuchLaila Lalami: Der verbotene BerichtExpeditionsbericht aus der Feder eines Schwarzen
Estebanico arbeitet sich zusammen mit Soldaten, Siedlern und ihren Anführern in unbekanntes Gelände vor. Dorantes sein Herr reitet, Estebanico geht hinterher. Die erste tödliche Begegnung spielt sich mit einem Krokodil ab, die zweite, nicht weniger schockartig für die Spanier, mit den inidgenen Apalache, in deren Territorium sie vordringen. Viele Szenen tragen eine unterschwellige, groteske Komik in sich, weil die Spanier auch hilflos und ausgeliefert in der Pampa noch an ihren Herrscherritualen festhalten. Laila Lalamis fiktiver Bericht steht früheren Abenteuerromanen über die Eroberung der neuen Welt an Spannung und intere...
2023-01-1008 min
Lannan Center PodcastLaila Lalami | 2022-2023 Readings & TalksOn Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the Lannan Center hosted a reading and conversation with writer Laila Lalami and moderated by Aminatta Forna. Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of five books, most recently, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, which was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her other books include, The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and wa...
2022-11-151h 02
Papierstau PodcastFolge 228: Denkt doch mal an die Kinder! („Die leuchtende Republik“ - Andrés Barba, „Gleißen“ - Anuschka Roshani, „Der verbotene Bericht“ - Laila Lalami)Diese Folge wird Euch präsentiert von Holzkern, einem Familienunternehmen, welches nachhaltig produzierte Uhren aus natürlichen Materialien wie Holz, Stein und Perlmutt herstellt – und nicht nur das: Bei Holzkern gibt es auch Schmuck für alle Geschlechter, selbstverständlich ebenso nachhaltig und einzigartig hergestellt. Schaut vorbei auf der Unternehmenswebsite, Link in der Bio und auf unserer Website!
Die Frankfurt Buchmesse ist in vollem Gange, und wir machen mit einer Neuerscheinung aus dem diesjährigen Gastland Spanien auf: „Die leuchtende Republik“ ist eine Gegenzivilisation, die 32 Kinder im subtropischen San Cristóbal aufbauen – sehr zum Missfallen der erwachsenen Bevölkerung. N...
2022-10-1952 min
Open FormEpisode 36: Laila Lalami on The GodfatherWelcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they’ve been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up.In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Laila Lalami (Conditional Citizens) about the 1972 film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, and Rober...
2022-05-2634 min
The afikra PodcastLAILA LALAMI | The Other American & The Moor's Account | ConversationsLaila Lalami talked about her award-winning books, The Other American, The Moor’s Account, Secret Son, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits & Conditional Citizens.Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of five books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller and...
2022-05-2556 min
AfroReads PodcastEpisode 9 - Secret Son: Who can I run to?Laila Lalami takes us through the emotional journey of a young man in Morocco by the name of Youseff, who searches for, and eventually finds his father. While skeptical of his father when they finally meet, Youssef can't help but to beleive that his father had good intentions for him as a young man. Through this journey, Youssef discovers his mother's secrets, his father's true nature, and the consequence to being associated with the wrong crowd.
Book: Secret Son by Laila Lalami
Thanks for listening!
2021-12-131h 21
Voices of the Middle East and North AfricaVOMENA Nov 17 2021- Megan Mylan's SIMPLE AS WATER doc and Laila Lalami's Conditional CitizensVOMENA Nov 17 2021- Megan Mylan's SIMPLE AS WATER doc and Laila Lalami's Conditional Citizens by VOMENA Team at KPFA
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2021-03-2311 min
Papierstau PodcastFolge 145: Schwing!!! (Klara und die Sonne - Kazuo Ishiguro, Die Anderen - Laila Lalami, Wie man langsamer verliert - Robin Robertson)Hurra, die Frankfurter Buchmesse findet statt – also zumindest wurde es angekündigt, und Eure Lieblings-Podcaster*innen haben auch schon ein Zimmer reserviert. Mehr dazu und über die Nominierungen für den Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 gibt’s im Vorgeplänkel!
Dann hauen wir Euch auch schon den ersten Knaller um die Ohren: Nobelpreisträger Kazuo Ishiguro hat mit „Klara und die Sonne“ einen zugänglichen SciFi-Roman über die Beziehung eines kranken Teenagers zu einem Roboter geschrieben. Kybernetik, Humanoide, Klassengesellschaft – wie weit sind wir von der Welt, die uns hier präsentiert wird, noch entfernt?
Danach reisen wir in...
2021-03-1759 min
Club BookClub Book Episode 108 Laila LalamiMoroccan American novelist Laila Lalami uses fiction as a vehicle to showcase “overlooked” North African stories and experiences. Notable examples include her 2014 breakout The Moor’s Account, which reconstructs the journeys of the New World’s first explorer of color. It won the American Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Lalami’s follow-up, The Other Americans, centers around the mysterious death of a Moroccan immigrant in California. Equal parts family drama, murder mystery, and love story, The Other Americans was singled out by media as varied as the BBC and BuzzFeed as one of the most anticipated releases o...
2021-02-181h 00
Talking with AuthorsLaila Lalami: "Conditional Citizens"This is the fiftieth episode of "Talking with Authors" by HEC Media and HEC Books. We're a program dedicated to speaking with some of the best selling authors around, covering many different genres.Today, our guest is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and best selling author, Laila Lalami. We spoke with her via Zoom in October of 2020 about her newest book “Conditional Citizens” by publisher Pantheon Books.Laila Lalami is a naturalized US citizen of Arab descent born in Morocco. The professor of linguistics’ pathway to citizenship lasted from 1992 to 2000 and she experienced a wide range of con...
2021-01-2835 min
Global I.Q. PodcastArts & Letters Live Virtual Event- Laila LalamiArts & Letters Live Virtual Event- Laila Lalami by World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth
2020-11-121h 05
The PEN PodWe Will Emerge: Laila LalamiIn this special edition of The PEN Pod, we share one in a series of essays from writers across the country sharing their hopes and anxieties in advance of Election Day. Here, novelist Laila Lalami with her piece, "Why Vote?"
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2020-10-2910 min
The Weekly ReaderAmerican Women: Seward Darby's 'Sisters in Hate' and Laila Lalami's 'Conditional Citizens' Examine the Lives of Uncommon American Women.On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews two new books that seek to illuminate the uncommon lives of American women who are often overshadowed by the stories of their male counterparts: Seward Darby's Sisters in Hate, and Laila Lalami's Conditional Citizens.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2020-10-0603 min
Begin This Eye-Opening Full Audiobook — Perfect While Traveling.Conditional Citizens by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/164212to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Conditional Citizens
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Laila Lalami
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 09-22-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 96 ratings
Genres: Civics & Citizenship
Publisher's Summary:
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to US citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections.
2020-09-225h 48
Download Latest Free Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsConditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila LalamiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America Author: Laila Lalami Narrator: Laila Lalami Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Editors' Choice • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a s...
2020-09-2210 min
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Secret Son by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419449to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Secret Son
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Release date: June 30, 2020
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past... Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, he dreams of escape - until, one day, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive, and...
2020-06-307h 40Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalSecret Son by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419449to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Secret Son
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Release date: June 30, 2020
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past... Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, he dreams of escape - until, one day, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive, and...
2020-06-307h 40
AWM Author TalksEpisode 3: Laila LalamiThis week we are pleased to present Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, who chats with American Writers Museum President Carey Cranston about her forthcoming book Conditional Citizens.
We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here.
2020-06-1523 min
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419446to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 2 minutes
Release date: May 19, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila Lalami asks, What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger? There's...
2020-05-194h 02Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419446to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 2 minutes
Release date: May 19, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila Lalami asks, What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger? There's...
2020-05-194h 02
Living in the USAJohn Nichols: Wisconsin votes--or tries to; plus Bob Edelman on Cold War Sports and Laila LalamiRepublicans forced Wisconsin to go ahead with an election on Tuesday, despite the coronavirus, after rejecting the proposals to extend voting by mail. John Nichols reports -- he says it's a frightening example of what they will try to do in November to reduce the Democratic vote.
Also: The Cold War was fought in many ways: it was a traditional political and military confrontation, but it was also a cultural contest, on a global scale –
and one of the most important arenas in the cultural contest was sports. historian Robert Edelman explains: he’s co-editor of the new book The Whol...
2020-04-1058 min
The Nation PodcastsWhat the Pentagon Knew about the Coronavirus—in 2017: Ken Klippenstein, plus Amy Wilentz on Jared and Laila Lalami on “The Other Americans”The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming. The Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds in 2017, according to a document obtained by Ken Klippenstein, The Nation’s Washington Correspondent – but of course Trump ignored the warning.
Also: Jared Kusher has a new job on the White House coronavirus task force—and Ivanka is at home, reading “The Odyssey” and playing the guitar. Amy Wilentz comments – she’s our Chief Jared Correspondent.
Plus: Nation columnist Laila Lalami talk about her novel “The Other Americans”--it’s about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigran...
2020-04-0940 min
Start Making Sense Clips"The Other Americans"- Laila Lalami talks about her novelNation columnist Laila Lalami talk about her novel “The Other Americans”--it’s about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant in a small town in California. It’s a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story. And it’s out now in paperback.
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2020-04-0915 min
Ampersand: The Poets & Writers PodcastConditional Citizens by Laila LalamiConditional Citizens by Laila Lalami by Poets & Writers
2020-04-0804 min
Diving In05: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave - Jacqueline Woodson, Téa Obreht and Laila LalamiLouise and Virginia catch up after Louise has been on holiday in New York. Louise has a great New York update, and the chat is about all things New York, iconic buildings, the United Nations General Assembly, a new stage production of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the New York Public Library and its new storage system. They discuss a number of books set in America and some other things they’ve been enjoying.Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, 2019. Published by Penguin Random House.Inland by Téa Obreht, 2019. Published by Hachette Australia.The O...
2019-10-1836 min
All the Books!All the Backlist! August 2, 2019This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including Let the Great World Spin.This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Books discussed on the show:The Vexations by Caitlin HorrocksT...
2019-08-0213 min
Living in the USATrump and Immigrants: Laila Lalami; Michael Walzer on Organizing; Michael Ames on Bowe BergdahlTrump’s target in the 2020 election will be immigrants, ‘The Other Americans’—that’s the title of the new novel by Laila Lalami. Her last novel, “The Moor’s Account,” won the American book award and was a Pulitzer finalist. She’s written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and The Guardian, and she’s a columnist for The Nation.
Plus: we talk about organizing to defeat Trump--about movement strategies and tactics, & political issues and campaigns. Our guest is Michael Walzer -- His new book is “Political Action: A practical guide to Movement politics.”
Also: during the presidential campaign...
2019-08-0245 min
2019-07-0837 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingFirst Draft - Laila LalamiLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of the novels Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor’s Account, and The Other Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-07-0841 min
BookwormLaila Lalami: The Other Americans
Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans is a polyphonic novel about social class and identity, with a revelation in every chapter.
2019-06-2029 min
Living in the USAJoe Biden has One Thing in Common with Donald Trump: Harold Meyerson; plus Laila LalalamiJoe Biden has one thing in common with Donald Trump: a campaign promising “restoration” of a lost past, rather than the kind of transformation we need to deal with our current problems—that’s what Harold Meyerson says. Of course, the past Biden wants to restore is not the white man’s 1950s, but rather the pre-Trump America of the Clintons and Obama. Harold is executive editor of The American Prospect and a regular contributor to the LA Times op-ed page.
And we talk about immigrants with Nation magazine columnist Laila Lalami—her new novel is 'The Other Americans,' about the su...
2019-05-2430 min
LA Review of BooksHomecoming: Laila Lalami on The Other Americans & a Mother's Day Tribute with Jo GieseCo-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk to writer Laila Lalami about her most recent novel, The Other Americans, a story about a Moroccan immigrant family in the Mojave Desert. In the second half of the episode, Kate, Medaya, and Eric come together to talk about the lessons they've learned from their mothers with Jo Giese, author of Never Sit If You Can Dance, a recent memoir about the lessons her mother has taught her.
2019-05-1747 min
The Nation PodcastsWhat Joe Biden Has In Common with Donald Trump: Harold Meyerson, plus Michael Ames on Bowe Bergdahl and Laila Lalami on ‘The Other Americans’Joe Biden has one thing in common with Donald Trump: a campaign promising “restoration” of a lost past, rather than the kind of transformation we need to deal with our current problems-- That’s what Harold Meyerson says. Of course the past Biden wants to restore is not the white man’s 1950s, but rather the pre-Trump America of the Clintons and Obama. Harold is Executive Editor of The American Prospect and a regular contributor to the LA Times op-ed page.
Also: during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump often talked about an American soldier in Afghanistan who became the longest-held American PO...
2019-05-1641 min
Start Making Sense Clips'The Other Americans': Laila Lalami on her New NovelNation columnist Laila Lalami talks about her new novel, “The Other Americans,” about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant in a small town in California. It’s a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
2019-05-1615 min
Not Another Book PodcastS2 EP 1 | We Back!: The Tea About NonfictionYour girls are back again with sipping hot tea and more laughter and singing plus a few surprises for season 2.This week’s episode we dive into the non-fiction World and we come for some of your problematic faves.We discuss:What is nonfiction?The difference between Creative nonfiction and other types of non fiction.Any self help Queens in the building?The rise of African creative nonfiction and the narrative gaps in Black British nonfictionBooks mentioned:- The Other Americans by La...
2019-05-141h 22
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesLaila Lalami, "THE OTHER AMERICANS" w/ Charles FinchFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami comes The Other Americans, a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant--at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late one spring night, as Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection in California, he's killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for go...
2019-05-1449 min
The Book ReviewLaila Lalami on 'The Other Americans'Lalami discusses her latest novel, and Jenny Odell talks about "How to Do Nothing."
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2019-05-0357 min
#AmWriting157: #ExcitedAboutWordsPodcasting from Mom 2.0 Conference with podcaster, journalist and author, Nicole Blades. She tells us about the pros and cons of skipping an agent, using rejection as fuel, and the joys of the writer community.Nicole Blades (https://www.nicoleblades.com/) is a Podcaster (Hey, Sis! Podcast), (https://www.heysispodcast.com/) Author of Have You Met Nora?, (https://www.nicoleblades.com/have-you-met-nora) The Thunder Beneath Us, & (https://www.nicoleblades.com/the-thunder-beneath-us) Earth's Waters (https://www.nicoleblades.com/earths-waters) --and this is a glorious episode, recorded live and in person at Mom 2.0, in which we really capture the joy of writing...
2019-05-0341 min
Reading WomenEp. 64 | The Moor's Account and A Very Large Expanse of SeaFor our month on Ramadan Reading, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami and A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi.A special thanks to our sponsor for this episode of Reading Women: Novellic. Find the app for iOS in the app store, and for more information, visit novellic.com.Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new bo...
2019-04-1745 min
Book Nomad: Reading the WorldEp. 26. Morocco/USA: The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami On this journey I'm joined by Zakia: The manifestations of power extend beyond physical influence. Can fiction fill the silences in history's narratives? Projecting today's perspectives onto a historical context. Book in focus: The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (Morocco/USA). Share your opinions, suggestions, counter-arguments - on Instagram: @booknomadpodcast - on Twitter: @booknomadpod - by email: booknomadpodcast@gmail.com - on the website: www.booknomad.weebly.com
2019-04-101h 23
All the Books!New Releases and More for March 26, 2019This week, Liberty and Katie discuss My Lovely Wife, Good Talk, Dig, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders; The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton, published by Graydon House Books; and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, publishers of The Handmaid’s Tale graphic novel.Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains...
2019-03-2642 min
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Other Americans: A Novel by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345082to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Other Americans: A Novel
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: P.J. Ochlan, Ozzie Rodriguez, Adenrele Ojo, Meera Simhan, Mark Bramhall, Ali Nasser, Mozhan Marnò, Max Adler, Susan Nezami
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Release date: March 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 13
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR...
2019-03-2610h 46Get Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalThe Other Americans: A Novel by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345082to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Other Americans: A Novel
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Ali Nasser, Mozhan Marnò, Max Adler, Susan Nezami, P.J. Ochlan, Ozzie Rodriguez, Adenrele Ojo, Meera Simhan, Mark Bramhall
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Release date: March 26, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 13
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR...
2019-03-2610h 46
Get BookedPolitical Witch NunsAmanda and Jenn discuss Moroccan authors, secret societies, nonfiction audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.This episode is sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and our library cart giveaway.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books Dis...
2018-01-3045 min
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryLaila Lalami : The Moor’s AccountIn this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the 1st black explorer of America, a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Narváez sailed with a crew of 600 men & nearly 100 horses. Within a year there were only 4 survivors, one of them our narrator/protagonist Estebanico. As this dramatic chronicle unfolds, we come to understand that, contrary to popular belief, black men played a significant part in New World exploration, & that Native American men & women were not merely silent witnesses to it. In Laila Lalami’s d...
2016-03-1647 min
Start Making Sense ClipsThe Arab World and ISIS; The New York Times and Bernie SandersLaila Lalami talks about the origins of ISIS, and what to do about it now. Laila grew up in Morocco; her novel 'The Moor's Account' was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Also: The New York Times coverage of Bernie Sanders has been condescending, and terrible: journalist Amy Wilentz comments on the recent page one story 'Bernie Sanders Won’t Kiss Your Baby.' Plus: Charles Blow, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, talks about growing up poor and black in rural Louisiana; his book 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' is out now in paperback; And Terry Gross explains th...
2015-11-1837 min
Get Hooked On Into A High-Impact Full Audiobook On The Go.The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/221315to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Moor's Account
Author: Laila Lalami
Narrator: Neil Shah
Format: mp3
Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
Release date: 02-03-15
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 762 ratings
Genres: Latino American
Publisher's Summary:
2015-02-031h 18
The Mixed ExperienceS2: Ep. 13: Laila Lalami, Award-winning WriterI'm excited to speak with award-winning writer Laila Lalami author of The Moor's Account.
2015-01-2100 min
All Write Already!Episode 46 – Laila Lalami, Plus What Good Are Genres?Today’s guest Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. She is the author of the short story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and the novel Secret Son, which was on the Orange Prize long list. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los […]
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2014-11-1234 minThe Seattle Public LibraryLaila Lalami, September 16Laila Lalami talks about her book, "The Moor's Account," an imagined memoir of the first black explorer of America - an educated slave and Moroccan Muslim who was left out of the history books.
2014-09-2900 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 314 — Laila LalamiLaila Lalami is the guest. Her new novel, The Moor's Account, is available now from Pantheon.
Salman Rushdie says
"Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth."
And Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it
"Assured, lyrical . . . Certainly the most extensive telling of the tale from ‘the Moor’s’ point of view . . . Adding a new spin to a familiar story, Lalami offers an utterl...
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