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TED Talks DailyHow can creativity help us heal? A doctor and a cartoonist answer | Amy Baxter and Navied MahdavianWhen medicine mixes with metaphor, what kind of healing transpires? In this unexpected meeting of minds, physician Amy Baxter shares her innovative approach to treating pain, while cartoonist Navied Mahdavian explores how he traces its deeper meaning. From punchlines to pain scales, they reveal how drawing can be diagnostic and why medicine might just need a touch more whimsy. (This conversation is part of "TED Intersections," a series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts navigating the ideas shaping our world.)Want to help shape TED’s shows going forward? Fill out our survey!Become a TE...2025-06-0724 min
AIが好きなTEDを語る番組悲しみと向き合うアートの力 - ある漫画家の物語漫画家Navied Mahdavian氏は、祖母の死という深い悲しみに対し、アート（漫画）で向き合った。故人の全てを捉え、身体的な変身を通じて共感を深め、悲しみは一人ではないと知るコミュニケーションの力について語る。〇How Art Helped Me Grapple with Grief | Navied Mahdavianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPQ-jHxcSqc2025-05-2607 minTED Talks DailyGrief is complicated — but drawing cartoons can help | Navied MahdavianWith just a few lines, cartoons can say so much with so little. In a moving talk, cartoonist Navied Mahdavian shares his process for distilling huge concepts into drawings on the page — and shows how his work helped him grieve the death of his beloved grandmother, flaws and all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-05-0208 min
TED Talks Daily (SD video)How art helped me grapple with grief | Navied MahdavianWith just a few lines, cartoons can say so much with so little. In a moving talk, cartoonist Navied Mahdavian shares his process for distilling huge concepts into drawings on the page — and shows how his work helped him grieve the death of his beloved grandmother, flaws and all.2025-05-0208 minTED Talks Daily (HD video)How art helped me grapple with grief | Navied MahdavianWith just a few lines, cartoons can say so much with so little. In a moving talk, cartoonist Navied Mahdavian shares his process for distilling huge concepts into drawings on the page — and shows how his work helped him grieve the death of his beloved grandmother, flaws and all.2025-05-0208 min
Not Your Mother's LibraryEpisode 63: Break-ing EggsWith Easter *break* on the horizon, we discuss books that are perfect to read when you have a few days off.
Check out what we talked about:
"The Twilight Garden" by Sara Nisha Adams with readalike "The Last Garden in England" by Julia Kelly. "A First Time for Everything" by Dan Santat with readalike "Merry-Go-Round" by Sergio Rossi. "The Suite Spot" by Trish Doller” with readalike "One Night on the Island" by Josie Silver. "This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America" by Navied Mahdavian with readalike "Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam" by Thien Pham. "Organized Li...2025-03-3114 min
The MothThe Moth Radio Hour: All In - Live from LondonThis week, a special episode of The Moth, live from a Mainstage show in London. Stories of going "All In" — in a new town, in an icy lake, and on the paintball course. This live show is hosted by Tiff Stevenson with additional hosting by Moth Senior Director Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.Storytellers:Kate Oliver remembers what it was like to be a "weird, androgynous, nerdy" teenager. Navied Mahdavian and his wife try to build a community in a new...2025-03-1859 min
Book BumbleMemoir Mania - Season 3, Episode 3Send us a textIn this episode Leslie finds her niche within a genre, and Laura finds her groove with a reading goal. We're talking about a stack of fabulous Memoirs! Plus, we'll share a Book in Hand. It's Memoir Mania!Featured Books:This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian (LH)Yes Please by Amy Poehler (LH)From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (LP)The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (LP...2024-10-2358 min
Writing Westward Podcast061 - Navied Mahdavian - This Country: Searching for Home in Very Rural AmericaA conversation with cartoonist Navied Mahdavian about his graphic novel memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023).
Navied Mahdavian is is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker since 2018. You may have also seen his work in Readers Digest, Wired, and elsewhere.
Find him at @naviedm on Instagram, on his substack ToonStack, or his at https://www.naviedm.com/.
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Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of H...2024-01-2659 min
Jordan and DemiEpisode 165 - Sadie Dupuis and Navied MahdavianFor the final It's Real episode of 2023, Jordan Edwards and Demi Ramos talk to a couple of artists who have had great years.Sadie Dupuis, known for fronting Speedy Ortiz, was recently named one of the 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone. In September, the band released Rabbit Rabbit. Their first album since 2018's Twerp Verse, it was a hit with both fans and critics.Outside of music, Dupuis is a poet and former journalist who has written the books Mouthguard and Cry Perfume. She's an avid reader and often posts about her favorit...2023-12-2352 min
Notes from America with Kai WrightEating Elk Kabobs in IdahoA new graphic memoir from New Yorker cartoonist Navied Mahdavian tells the story of his decision to move with his wife from San Francisco to rural Idaho. Mahdavian joins producer Kousha Navidar to discuss, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America. Plus, we take your calls.
Tell us what you think. Instagram and X (Twitter): @noteswithkai. Email us at notes@wnyc.org. Send us a voice message by recording yourself on your phone and emailing us, or going to Instagram and clicking on the link in our bio.
“Notes from America” airs live on Sunday e...2023-09-2123 min
Learn Persian with Chai and ConversationInterview | Navied Mahdavian, author of This Country, Searching for Home in (Very) Rural AmericanSo excited to share that Navied Mahdavian's incredible debut graphic memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America is NOW OUT and available for purchase! And to celebrate, I’m so excited to share with you all the conversation I had with Navied after reading his incredible his work.The book is set in rural Idaho where Navied moved with his wife and dog in November 2016- yes, the month Trump got elected. I could NOT put the book down and enjoyed reading it immensely- it brought up so many issues we all think about so...2023-09-1335 min
Book Club of OneEpisode 96: Were They Ever Gentlemen?Featured Books:
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne
2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads
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New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest PodcastEpisode 95 - Navied MahdavianOn part 2 of this week's episode, we interview cartoonist Navied Mahdavian. Navied shares his story of leaving his career as a fifth grade teacher to move to a cabin in Idaho to focus on cartoons. A year after laboring over his cartoons, Navied went to New York and sold a cartoon to The New Yorker with his very first batch! We talk about that path in detail and he shares some of his favorite cartoons. We also discuss Navied's cartoon in the caption contest and his hysterical cartoons in the Rejection Collection. Finally, Navied shares a glimpse into his f...2023-02-081h 24