Laila Lalami, Steven MinOn and Madeleine Ryan on mining dreams, a walking corpse and a very bad day

23 Mar 2025 • 54 min • EN
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Award-winning Moroccan American author Laila Lalami imagines a world where the most intimate aspects of life are mined for data in her speculative fiction, The Dream Hotel. Australian Chinese writer Steve MinOn goes on a generational discovery tour with a corpse in his debut novel First Name Second Name. And Madeleine Ryan's The Knowing reflects on the anxieties of modern life and ambition.

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