Lila's interview with Umberto Eco is published in the Summer issue of THE PARIS REVIEW.

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." A description of the panelists can be found here.

Lila moderated three panels at the 2008 PEN WORLD VOICES Festival: Fiction from Fact, Crossing Borders, and The Publisher, the Poet, the Editor, and his Novels. Her author page for the event can also be found here.

Lila is interviewed by Anna Clark at the Center for New Words.

Light of My Life, her book of fiction and essay on happiness according to Vladimir Nabokov, will appear in 2009.
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.

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