Reading: Laila Lalami
Location
Online (via Zoom)
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
1-10-2020 7:00 PM
End Date
1-10-2020 8:00 PM
Description
Oct. 1, 7 p.m. – Reading: Laila Lalami
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, October 1, 2020, as part of the 51st Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Working Classes,” Laila Lalami reads from her work. Lalami begins by talking about how her novel The Other American came about, including the connection to her previous novel The Moor’s Account, her personal experiences with books growing up in Morocco, and how she ended up in America. Lalami then reads an excerpt from The Other Americans and talks about her process of writing the novel. Lalami also responds to audience questions about the possibility of adapting The Other Americans to the screen, her experiences with discrimination as an immigrant in America and how those experiences affected her writing The Other Americans, how she balances teaching creative writing and her own work, novels that have inspired while writing The Other Americans, advice for coming up with material that doesn’t feel bland, how class influences and is present in her work, and whether she’s ever felt unable or unwilling to represent particular voices and experiences.
Introduced by President Andrew Armacost.
Reading: Laila Lalami
Online (via Zoom)
Oct. 1, 7 p.m. – Reading: Laila Lalami
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, October 1, 2020, as part of the 51st Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Working Classes,” Laila Lalami reads from her work. Lalami begins by talking about how her novel The Other American came about, including the connection to her previous novel The Moor’s Account, her personal experiences with books growing up in Morocco, and how she ended up in America. Lalami then reads an excerpt from The Other Americans and talks about her process of writing the novel. Lalami also responds to audience questions about the possibility of adapting The Other Americans to the screen, her experiences with discrimination as an immigrant in America and how those experiences affected her writing The Other Americans, how she balances teaching creative writing and her own work, novels that have inspired while writing The Other Americans, advice for coming up with material that doesn’t feel bland, how class influences and is present in her work, and whether she’s ever felt unable or unwilling to represent particular voices and experiences.
Introduced by President Andrew Armacost.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2020/day3/1
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.