#  Writers Speak | Laila Lalami in conversation with James Wood 

 



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 **November 13, 2024** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall**  



 

 



 

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##  [WRITERS SPEAK](/writers-speak)

##  SPEAKER: Laila Lalami

###  About the Speakers

 [Laila Lalami](https://lailalalami.com/) is the author of five books, including [*The Moor’s Account*](https://lailalalami.com/the-moors-account/about/), 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*](https://lailalalami.com/the-other-americans/about/), was a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. Her essays have appeared in the *Los Angeles Times*, the *Washington Post*, *The Nation*, *Harper’s*, the *Guardian*, and the *New York Times*. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.

 [James Wood](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/james-wood) is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard. He has been a staff writer and book critic at *The New Yorker* since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. His critical essays are collected in *The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature* and *Belief*, *The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel*, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and *The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays*. He is also the author of two novels *The Book Against God* and *Upstate*, and a study of technique in the novel, *How Fiction Works.* His most recent book, *Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019,* collects the best essays from his career into one definitive volume.

###  About the Series

 [Writers Speak](/writers-speak), a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by [Duncan White](https://scholar.harvard.edu/dew/home), Associate Director in the Program in General Education and Lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard University.



 

 



 

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