Luster | JLF London 2021 - Raven Leilani in conversation with Catharine Morris

In partnership with the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize and British Council Wales

Raven Leilani's award winning debut, Luster, has been described as a millennial novel. Written in the first person, it carries the ache of youth and has a brutal and incisive eye for racism and racist violence. The intergenerational narrative follows a young girl's attempts at understanding life while navigating relationships, anger and her own hidden potential. In conversation with Catharine Morris, Associate Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Leilani introduces us to the world of Edie in all her unabashed individuality, sexuality, humour and rage.

Raven Leilani’s work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and
The Cut, among other publications. Leilani received her MFA from NYU and was the Axinn
Foundation Writer in Residence there. Luster is her first novel.

Catharine Morris is Associate Editor of the Times Literary Supplement where she
commissions and edits book reviews in the fields of Biography, Memoir, Travel, Bibliography
and Language, as well as reviews of journals. She is also a freelance writer. Between 2004
and 2008 she worked in the obituaries department of The Times.

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