The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami is an engrossing, dire and dystopian story about authoritarianism, survival and the fight for privacy in a surveillance state. Lalami joins us to talk about the idea that inspired the novel, worldbuilding, creating her characters and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books (Episode):

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami