Lila's interview with Umberto Eco is published in the Summer issue of The Paris Review.
Lila moderated two panels at the 2009 Festival of New French Writing with authors Marie N'Diaye and Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Francine Du Plessix Gray and Philip Gourevitch.
Lila took part in the panel Lolita in America in New York this fall, and discussed the burning of books in a talk titled "Destroy and Forget: The Secret of Durable Pigments."For an overview of the conference, click here.
Lila is interviewed by Anna Clark at the Center for New Words.
Lila's recommendations in Tina Brown's The Daily Beast. To subscribe to the feed, click here.
Light of My Life, her book of fiction and essay on happiness according to Vladimir Nabokov, will appear in 2010.
Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, interviewed in The Paris Review by Lila Azam Zanganeh:
Did the war have any impact on your decision to write?
No, there is no direct connection. I had started writing before the war, independently of the war. As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. I was a perfectionist and wanted to make them look as though they had been printed, so I wrote them in capital letters and made up title pages, summaries, illustrations. Read Excerpt »