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Radio, TV, and Live Appearances

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Interview on "Now"
PBS, May 26, 2006
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Interview on CNN World News
CNN International, May 5, 2006
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LIVE from the NYPL: Who's Afraid of Iran?
Book TV, CSPAN 2, April 19, 2006

Interview with Tavis Smiley
The Tavis Smiley Show
PBS, April 14, 2006
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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.

 

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