Walt Whitman and Dear Layla
Dear Rebecca, Sarah, Matthew and Patrick, Joanie French and I took the Amtrak train to Texas in the summer of 2005 for a family wedding. Along the way and back, I read the Library of…
Category: Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine
Dear Layla: A Reading in Cincinnati
Dear Cincinnati Friends, Eileen McGrath Mosher and Brett Vimtrup are hosting a book reading and signing of my recent novel Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine on Saturday 2 April. We’ll gather at 6541 Loiswood Drive…
Two Pages
Your book arrived today, just a few days after I ordered it on Amazon (and on a Sunday no less!) It looks beautiful and I couldn’t be happier for you I opened up to the…
My Relationship with the Dictionary by Claire Peterson
Last night in the Dear Layla Writing class, we considered the themes of “Words” and “Reading” as we read aloud part of the Lexicon and Reading series in my novel. Claire Peterson wrote the following…
Message from Yael Who’s on Her Way to Sri Lanka
Taking Dear Layla on the road with me…for a 4th read. Salam forever, wherever.
Hug-Inspiring!
Jason Makansi shared this post on Facebook to the Arab American Literature Public Group: I hope members here will take a close look at a new wonderful, unique epistolary novel, Dear Layla: Welcome to Palestine…
Your Name Came Up (Daydream/3)
I smelled like smoke Which is unusual for me But I humored him Though it wasn’t funny To think of him dying From the deliberate wreckage of his lungs I hadn’t seen him in ages…
A Writing and Reading Course with “Dear Layla”
In this winter/spring course, we will read (or reread) and write on themes from my recent book, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine. Precedent for this method: last spring we used themes from The Book of…
In Tokyo, on a Layover
Read Dear Layla with wet eyes. And huge smiles of recognition, not just of myself but of the recognition of common turning points. Despite the desperate situation, despite all that cannot be done, all that…
Faces/1 (A Letter from Prison)
“Dear Perry Thinking of you a lot these days Been reading the martyrs Here in my homey little cell (For a while I got solitary for asking disruptive questions) Wanted to send you this little…