The panel went really well! Most of the questions afterwards were great, so it isn’t entirely fair to title this post in this way, but it’s fun.
I spoke about recent Arab American fiction, my own publishing process, and the dearth of Arab American bildungsromans, a lack I hope to remedy soon (How Franzen of me to talk about a problem and offer my work as a solution. Ha!).
Khaled Mattawa and Hayan Charara, two of my favorite guys and Arab American poets, hung out afterwards:
It was wonderful…
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