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Otherppl with Brad ListiSpecial AnnouncementA quick Sunday episode wherein I share some exciting news: Later this year, I will be launching a new company called DeepDive, which specializes in the creation of long-form educational audio. The debut course from DeepDive will be 'How to Write a Novel,' and it will feature more than 50 hours of never-before-heard conversations with dozens of today's leading writers, including Emily St. John Mandel, Porochista Khakpour, Melissa Broder, Steve Almond, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Lynn Steger Strong, Vauhini Vara, Lydia Kiesling, Madelaine Lucas, Matt Bell, Jerry Stahl, Hannah Pittard, Kimberly King Parsons, Gina Frangello, Stephen Graham Jones, and many...2025-02-2310 min
Speak with Eve Eurydice131: From Privilege to Prison. The Popularity of Luigi Mangione. Eve Eurydice w Porochista KhakpourEurydice and Porochista discuss the phenomenon of Luigi Mangione, suddenly the most popular, most photographed killer in the world. Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He allegedly shot him from the back outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan on Dec 4th at 535am. The shooting was caught on camera. The suspect got drink at Starbucks, sat on a bench, used a cellphone, stepped out between two parked cars, shot Mr Thompson from the back, fled on an e bike to Central Park with a gray...2024-12-2556 min
The Chills at Will PodcastEpisode 258 with Porochista Khakpour, Author of Tehrangeles, Savvy and Skilled Chronicler of the Essence of Modern Life, and Writer of Varied, Hilarious, and Incisive WorksShow Notes and Links to Porochista Khanpour's Work
For Episode 258, Pete welcomes Porochista Khakpour, and the two discuss, among other topics, her harrowing departure from Iran to the US at a young age, her voracious reading and writing and storytelling, amazing life experiences that have fed her writing, her love of contemporary stan culture and KPop, how her latest book’s release is different, seeds for Tehrangeles, modern wellness and conspiracy theory cultures, her experiences with the real Tehrangeles, the role of the outsider as a writer, and so much about themes and topics related to...2024-10-222h 05
Daily Bruin PodcastsPersian Perspectives Today: Porochista KhakpourListen to series host and podcasts contributor Megan Vahdat sit down with author Porochista Khakpour to discuss her experiences growing up Iranian in LA, her journey as a writer and her latest novel, "Tehrangeles." A transcript is available at dailybruin.com/category/podcasts.2024-10-1536 min
Speak with Eve Eurydice126: What Women Really Think. Online Life in the American Empire. Eurydice Eve & Porochista KhakpourPorochista and Eurydice talk literature, uniparty, America’s reality TV politics, celebrity culture, pop culture, rape culture, Jeffrey Epstein and P. Diddy. They discuss feminism from the 90s to now, Hamptons “white parties” and NYC clubs and Palm Beach society. Porochista Khakpour is a refugee from Iran , whose family fled the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution , and the author of the books Sons and Other Flammable Objects, The Last Illusion, Sick, and Tehrangeles, her satirical, polyphonic, campy third novel, a tragicomic saga about the high-functioning dysfunctional Milani family of Iranian multimillionaires in LA who have a McMans...2024-09-231h 13
Behind the Mic with AudioFile MagazineTEHRANGELES by Porochista Khakpour, read by Mikaela Hoover, Manijeh KhakpourMikaela Hoover performs Porochista Khakpour’s wildly delightful novel about Iranian American fast-food heiresses and wannabe reality television stars. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Kendra Winchester discuss this story about four sisters at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which toppled their dreams of a reality series focused on their family. The Milani family is forced to spend all of their time together and tensions rise. Hoover gives each dramatically different viewpoint character a distinct narrative voice, highlighting the charming and unique qualities of each character.Read our review of the audiobook at our...2024-09-1607 min
The Indian EditMini-Edit 5: Mystery author Sujata Massey's tips for a fun-filled Back-to-School seasonThe dynamic author Sujata Massey joined me in conversation earlier this summer and shared her resolution to make it her best summer by “only reading pleasurable and escapist books”! Why not take this idea into the hectic ‘Back to School’ season too? Join us as Sujata shares more about her latest Perveen Mistry historical mystery set in 1920s India and don’t miss her fun suggestions for light reading and how to make some free fun for yourself WITHOUT getting on a plane!Sujata was first on the podcast on Ep. 60 which you can catch right here! Hear our l...2024-09-0536 min
Shadow // YaddoReal Time Masterful novelists Rebecca Makkai and Porochista Khakpour on her latest, Tehrangeles, plus parodies, parables, short attention spans, diaspora drama, K-pop, and more. 2024-08-0224 min
Otherppl with Brad Listi929. Porochista KhakpourPorochista Khakpour is the author of the novel Tehrangeles, available from Pantheon. Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. She is the critically acclaimed author of two previous novels, Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion; a memoir, Sick; and a collection of essays, Brown Album. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bookforum, Elle, and many other publications. She lives in New York City.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast feat...2024-07-031h 21
NPR's Book of the Day'Tehrangeles' follows a family of aspiring Iranian influencers in LAOnce upon a time, author Porochista Khakpour worked as a shop girl in the luxury stores lining Rodeo Drive. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang how excited she would get when Iranian-American customers came in — but how poorly those interactions would pan out to be. Her new novel, Tehrangeles, explores the story of one such powerful family in LA on the cusp of getting their own reality TV show. And as Khakpour and Chang discuss, it opens a whole lot of questions about whiteness, assimilation and cultural definitions of success. To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and su...2024-06-2008 min
Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary Fiction[Spanish] - La vegetariana: Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024 by Han KangPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788175to listen full audiobooks.
Title: [Spanish] - La vegetariana: Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024
Author: Han Kang
Narrator: Anna Mestre, Roger Batalla, Raúl Rodríguez
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Release date: June 13, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
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Genres: Literary Fiction
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*PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2024* *PREMIO BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2016* El fenómeno literario internacional que catapultó a Han Kang y que está destinado a ser un clásico. «Un libro que resistirá el paso de los años». Gabi Martínez «Palabra a palabra, La vegetariana es una exper...2024-06-135h 35
Escape Into Another World With Full Audiobookvegetariana Audio Libro por Han KangEscuche este audio libro completo gratis enhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 788175
Título: vegetariana
Autor: Han Kang
Narrador: Anna Mestre, Raúl Rodríguez, Roger Batalla
Formato: Unabridged
Duración: 05:35:51
Idioma: Español
Fecha de publicación: 06-13-24
Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Categorías: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Feminist Fiction
Resumen:
PREMIO BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2016
El fenómeno literario internacional que catapultó a Han Kang y que está destinado a ser un clásico
Un libro que resistirá el paso de los años. Gabi Martínez
Palabra a palabra, La vegetariana es una experiencia extraordinaria. Daniel Hahn, The Guardian
Una d...2024-06-135h 35Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women[Spanish] - La vegetariana: Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024 by Han KangPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788175to listen full audiobooks.
Title: [Spanish] - La vegetariana: Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024
Author: Han Kang
Narrator: Anna Mestre, Roger Batalla, Raúl Rodríguez
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Release date: June 13, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
*PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2024* *PREMIO BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2016* El fenómeno literario internacional que catapultó a Han Kang y que está destinado a ser un clásico. «Un libro que resistirá el paso de los años». Gabi Martínez «Palabra a palabra, La vegetariana es una exper...2024-06-135h 35
Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women[Spanish] - La vegetariana: Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024 by Han KangPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vegetariana: Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024 Author: Han Kang Narrator: Anna Mestre, Roger Batalla, Raúl Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: *PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2024* *PREMIO BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2016* El fenómeno literario internacional que catapultó a Han Kang y que está destinado a ser un clásico. «Un libro que resistirá el paso de los años». Gabi Martínez «Palabra a palabra, La vegetariana...2024-06-1305 min
Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionTehrangeles: A Novel by Porochista KhakpourPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715857to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tehrangeles: A Novel
Author: Porochista Khakpour
Narrator: Manijeh Khakpour, Mikaela Hoover
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Release date: June 11, 2024
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, W MAGAZINE, AND VANITY FAIR! • MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY, AND YOUR NEWEST REALITY TV OBSESSION • 'Think the Kardashians meet Little Women and Crazy Rich Asians…An indelible, uproarious snapshot of young womanhood.'—Vogue “Delightfully twisted and heartfelt...Khakpour is a satirist extraordinaire.' —Kevin Kwan • “Funny, devastating, and f...2024-06-1110h 34
All the Books!New Releases and More for June 11, 2024This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Moonbound, Tehrangeles, The Stardust Grail, and more great books!Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.Learn something new, sharpen your skills, and expand your horizons with our Better Living Through Books newsletter. Better Living Through Books is your resource for reading material that helps you live the life you want. From self-help to cookbooks to parenting to personal finance, relationships, and more, Better...2024-06-1144 min
Your Favorite Stories, Now in Your Ears - Full AudiobookTehrangeles: A Novel Audiobook by Porochista KhakpourListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 715857
Title: Tehrangeles: A Novel
Author: Porochista Khakpour
Narrator: Manijeh Khakpour, Mikaela Hoover
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:34:59
Language: English
Release date: 06-11-24
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary Women
Summary:
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, W MAGAZINE, AND VANITY FAIR! • MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY, AND YOUR NEWEST REALITY TV OBSESSION • 'Think the Kardashians meet Little Women and Crazy Rich Asians…An indelible, uproarious snapshot of young womanhood.'—Vogue
“Delightfully twisted and...2024-06-1110h 34
Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenTehrangeles: A Novel by Porochista KhakpourPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tehrangeles: A Novel Author: Porochista Khakpour Narrator: Manijeh Khakpour, Mikaela Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, W MAGAZINE, AND VANITY FAIR! • MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY, AND YOUR NEWEST REALITY TV OBSESSION • 'Think the Kardashians meet Little Women and Crazy Rich Asians…An indelible, uproarious snapshot of young womanhood.'—Vogue “Delightfully twisted and heartfelt...Khakpour is a satirist extraordinaire.' —Kevin Kwan • “Funny, devastating...2024-06-1110 minDownload High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenTehrangeles: A Novel by Porochista KhakpourPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715857to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tehrangeles: A Novel
Author: Porochista Khakpour
Narrator: Manijeh Khakpour, Mikaela Hoover
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Release date: June 11, 2024
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, W MAGAZINE, AND VANITY FAIR! • MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY, AND YOUR NEWEST REALITY TV OBSESSION • 'Think the Kardashians meet Little Women and Crazy Rich Asians…An indelible, uproarious snapshot of young womanhood.'—Vogue “Delightfully twisted and heartfelt...Khakpour is a satirist extraordinaire.' —Kevin Kwan • “Funny, devastating, and f...2024-06-1110h 34
In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica BennettGrowing Up with Sally Field's 'Not Without My Daughter'In 1991, America’s sweetheart Sally Field starred in a movie about an American woman’s desperate escape from her abusive Iranian husband. For Susie, and a generation of other Iranian-American kids, this was the only representation they saw of themselves in pop culture – and it was not great. It was essentially a horror film – and the horror was Iran. In this episode, best-selling author (and fellow Iranian-American) Porochista Khakpour joins Susie to talk about what it was like growing up in the shadow of ‘Not Without My Daughter’ and its comically dark view of their homeland. GUESTS: Porochista...2024-04-1945 min
Time To Say GoodbyeTesting our politics through K-fine dining and “The Retrievals”Hello from British Columbia! This week, [4:15] we start with the latest concerning video of Mitch McConnell and whether the conversation around fitness for office can (and should) cut across party lines. [21:45] Next, we talk about the Korean fine-dining wave in NYC, the effect of soft power, and why you won’t see us at Naro anytime soon. [45:05] In our final segment, we discuss the Serial podcast “The Retrievals,” which explores questions of gendered pain and corrupt healthcare through the true stories of women deprived of pain medication during IVF. Jay takes us BTS of this caliber of narrati...2023-09-061h 14
teronggemoy[EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour [EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Read Online Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook Sick: A Memoir for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick **Download Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick Book Synopsis : In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author...2023-09-0100 min
terongmalas[EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour [EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Read Online Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook Sick: A Memoir for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick **Download Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick Book Synopsis : In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author...2023-09-0100 min
terong hijau[EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour[EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Read Online Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook Sick: A Memoir for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick **Download Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick Book Synopsis : In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour's struggles with late-stage Lyme disease. For...2023-09-0110 min
terongmuda[EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour [EPUB] [Read] Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Read Online Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook Sick: A Memoir for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick **Download Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/33026961-sick Book Synopsis : In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author...2023-09-0100 min
suket urip[EPUB] [download] A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung [EPUB] [download] A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung Read Online A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/46144864-a-map-is-only-one-story **Download Book...2023-09-0100 min
suket warlapar[EPUB] [download] A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung [EPUB] [download] A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung Read Online A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/46144864-a-map-is-only-one-story **Download Book...2023-09-0100 min
What in the WorldCan Brazil end deforestation in the Amazon by 2030?Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 66% in July 2023 compared to a year earlier. The news comes as leaders from eight South American countries are gathering in Belem to discuss how to protect the rainforest. The BBC’s South America Correspondent Katy Watson is in Brazil and tells us what she’s been hearing. We also look at Lyme disease following Bella Hadid’s recent Instagram post that details her struggles with the disease. Our Health and Science Correspondent James Gallagher explains the cause and symptoms. And our friends at BBC Reel speak to Iranian-American noveli...2023-08-0813 min
Explore New Worlds, Free Audiobook Are the Golden PearlsI Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel Audiobook by Khashayar J. KhabushaniListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 649113
Title: I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel
Author: Khashayar J. Khabushani
Narrator: Sean Rohani
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:21:41
Language: English
Release date: 08-01-23
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Religious & Inspirational, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+
Summary:
“[A] masterful debut . . . a novel of survival and longing and love, and in many ways a modern portrait of an artist as a young man . . . a book written for us, we Iranian Americans whom you don’t often hear about.”—Porochista Khakpour, The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)
“A...2023-08-015h 21
Zócalo Public SquareHow Can Women and Girls Win in Iran? at Zócalo Public SquareLive from ASU California Center at the historic Herald Examiner Building: Iran analyst Holly Dagres, artist Sahar Ghorishi, and anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi joined Zócalo to discuss if young women hold the key to a just future for Iran. This event was recorded on December 6, 2022 and was moderated by Porochista Khakpour, author of "Brown Album"
Visit https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ to read our articles and learn about upcoming events.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/z-calo-public-square2023-02-0656 min
fiction/non/fictionWomen Resisting Terror in Iran: Porochista Khakpour on the Historic Protests Against President Raisi’s GovernmentNovelist and essayist Porochista Khakpour joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the current wave of protests for women’s rights in Iran, and the government’s brutal crackdown in response. Khakpour laments the deaths of young women who have lost their lives speaking out against compulsory hijab. She also reflects on and celebrates multiple generations of human rights protests in the country of her birth. Finally, she talks about what it means to be Iranian in the United States and reads from her essay “Revolution Days,” which is included in her latest book, Br...2022-10-2746 min
London Calling der Podcast067 📞 - Da, wo Florida anfängt
Guess who's back - Back again - Shady's back - Tell a friend
Kat ist wieder zurück aus Florida und updatet uns alle dazu, wie es war, welche Museen sie besucht hat, was sie gegessen hat, tolle Bookshops und gibt Fun Facts über Jacksonville zum besten.
Apropo Museum, Zora gibt noch einen Tipp, in welches „Museum“ ihr in den USA besser nicht gehen solltet…
BUCHEMPFEHLUNGEN:
Porochista Khakpour „Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity“ (2020, Vintage Books) - https://tidd.ly/3Fwyh3c *
Taylor Jenkins Reid „Daisy Jones & The Six“ (2021, Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag) - https://tidd.ly/3M0QI2t...2022-05-1236 min
How To Be...Books PodcastEpisode 45: Inclusive - How Do We Embrace Intersectional Identities? With Porochista KhakpourWelcome to "How To Be...", exploring how to gain life skills, whilst attempting to gain some myself. American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist Audre Lorde once said: “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” Looking at identity, it is thought to be important to approach it from an intersectional perspective because it deepens the understanding that there is diversity and nuance in the ways in which people hold power. So how do become more inclusive of different identities for others and ourselves? Looking into what the 'experts' say about ident...2021-10-0335 min
Burned By BooksEleanor Henderson, "Everything I Have is Yours" (Flatiron, 2021)An interview with Eleanor Henderson, author of Everything I Have is Yours (2021). Eleanor and I discuss the unforgivable failures of the American medical establishment, trying to find truth and care in-between the healers and quacks, deciding to open the closed book of a marriage to the world, and finding solace in the extraordinary memoirs of writers seeking mental and physical wellness.Books Recommended in this episode:Eleanor recommends:
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir
Esme WeiJun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias
CJ Hauser, Family of Origin
Chris Holmes is Chair of...2021-08-1157 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastEpisode QS47: Ben Okri + Porochista Khakpour (April 29, 2021)Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri launches his timely new collection of stories, Prayer for the Living, in conversation with novelist and essayist Porochista Khakpour. Their passionate and poetic conversation touches on the spiritual, political, aesthetic and emotional aspects of writing fiction, and in particular the tension for non-white writers between the freedom to write about universal human ideas and the demand that they represent their specific cultural context. Their conversation unveils the power and necessity of storytelling in our time; as Okri says, "We as the human race are in the Last Chance Saloon of our great narrative... we're...2021-04-291h 11
Rodeo Drive – The PodcastListen back: By Appointment Only, at The House of BijanOriginally published on: July 9, 2020.As Rodeo Drive reopens its doors to the world, we invite you to join host Bronwyn Cosgrave to revisit the unique story of clothing designer Bijan Pakzad and the ultra-luxury menswear store he created. Four decades after young Bijan Pakzad packed his bags and left Iran, he had become the “world’s most expensive designer”, sought after by presidents and basketball stars. Join his son, Nicolas, CEO and co-owner of the House of Bijan as he takes listeners on a tour of the storied, by-appointment only yellow boutique while recounting his late father’s past, explaining th...2021-04-2733 min
Dog Save The PeopleRight Boy, Right Time w/ Porochista KhakpourPorochista Khakpour was struggling with an undiagnosed case of late-stage Lyme Disease, having to go through medical treatments every day. As a suggestion to help Porochista get through her disease recovery, her doctor encouraged her to consider an emotional support dog. He said there could be a positive impact on her health as a result, and he was right. She got a poodle puppy and never looked back. That dog, Cosmo, helped motivate her to take hikes outside, focus on someone else by taking him to puppy school, and bring a level of unconditional love that has led to...2020-12-1611 min
Big Book EnergyA Poorly Timed Read: The White Plague by Frank HerbertPaige chooses one of her favorite SciFi books to read for the final episode of Books We Love: The White Plague by Frank Herbert. It's a great book, but perhaps the middle of a pandemic was not the best time to read it.Folio Facts: Oldest printing press in British North AmericaBBE Bookstore: Sick by Porochista KhakpourCreatives' Corner: Roman Empire, NetflixYou can support BBE at patreon.com/bigbookenergy or through our bookstore at bookshop.org/shop/BigBookEnergy Support the show2020-11-241h 25
Rodeo Drive – The PodcastBy appointment only, at the House of BijanIn the early 1970s a young clothing designer named Bijan Pakzad packed his bags and left Iran, dreaming of conquering America. Four decades later the building that housed the original Bijan boutique on Rodeo Drive was purchased by LVMH for $122 million, and Bijan had become the “world’s most expensive designer,” sought after by presidents and basketball stars. Bijan’s son Nicolas, CEO and co-owner of the House of Bijan, takes listeners on a tour of the storied, by-appointment-only boutique, and explains how he is redefining the Bijan brand for tomorrow’s customers. He also revisits his late fa...2020-07-1034 min
Speak Sex w EveEpisode 65: The Last Gasp of the Patriarchy: How Capitalism Sexism Racism End, w Porochista KhakpourEve Eurydice speaks with Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick, Brown Album, The Last Illusion, Sons and Other Flammable objects, intellectual valley girl recipient of a 2012 NEA. She’s a girl after my own heart—plus we both have Persian last names, similar moms, experimental prose writer creds, mold survival expertise, & sexual fluidity. We talk about divesting ourselves of the Patriarchy Aesthetic & the Addiction to Materialism which is America’s fundamentalism. If we no longer equate good with profitable, we can evaluate our choices & the choices of others in socially meaningful, impactful ways. Profit drove Americans to sell kidnapped humans to each ot...2020-06-121h 16
Speak with EveEp 65: Death of the Patriarchy Eve Eurydice w Porochista Khakpour on Women Who Write Art Against AllEurydice speaks with Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick, Brown Album, The Last Illusion, Sons and Other Flammable objects, intellectual valley girl recipient of a 2012 NEA. She’s a girl after my own heart—plus we both have Persian last names, similar moms, experimental prose writer creds, mold survival expertise, & sexual fluidity. We talk about divesting ourselves of the Patriarchy Aesthetic & the Addiction to Materialism which is America’s fundamentalism. If we no longer equate good with profitable, we can evaluate our choices & the choices of others in socially meaningful, impactful ways. Profit drove Americans to sell kidnapped humans to each other...2020-06-121h 16
Speak with EveEp 65: Death of the Patriarchy Eve Eurydice w Porochista Khakpour on Women Who Write Art Against AllEurydice speaks with Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick, Brown Album, The Last Illusion, Sons and Other Flammable objects, intellectual valley girl recipient of a 2012 NEA. She’s a girl after my own heart—plus we both have Persian last names, similar moms, experimental prose writer creds, mold survival expertise, & sexual fluidity. We talk about divesting ourselves of the Patriarchy Aesthetic & the Addiction to Materialism which is America’s fundamentalism. If we no longer equate good with profitable, we can evaluate our choices & the choices of others in socially meaningful, impactful ways. Profit drove Americans to sell kidnapped humans to each other...2020-06-121h 16
Speak with Eve EurydiceEp 65: Death of the Patriarchy Eve Eurydice w Porochista Khakpour on Women Who Write Art Against AllEurydice speaks with Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick, Brown Album, The Last Illusion, Sons and Other Flammable objects, intellectual valley girl recipient of a 2012 NEA. She’s a girl after my own heart—plus we both have Persian last names, similar moms, experimental prose writer creds, mold survival expertise, & sexual fluidity. We talk about divesting ourselves of the Patriarchy Aesthetic & the Addiction to Materialism which is America’s fundamentalism. If we no longer equate good with profitable, we can evaluate our choices & the choices of others in socially meaningful, impactful ways. Profit drove Americans to sell kidnapped humans to each other...2020-06-121h 16
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesLIVE ON ZOOM: Porochista Khakpour, “BROWN ALBUM” w/ Myriam GurbaNovelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA, her own family's modest life and culture, and becoming an assimilated American. Porochista rebels--she bleaches her hair and flees to the East Coast, where she finds her community: other people writing...2020-05-251h 03
Get Lost in the World of Stories With Free AudiobookBrown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity Audiobook by Porochista KhakpourListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 414781
Title: Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
Author: Porochista Khakpour
Narrator: Porochista Khakpour
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:12:33
Language: English
Release date: 05-19-20
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Criticism
Summary:
From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment.
Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as...2020-05-196h 12
Access Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsBrown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista KhakpourPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity Author: Porochista Khakpour Narrator: Porochista Khakpour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment. Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's...2020-05-1910 min
Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsBrown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista KhakpourPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414781to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
Author: Porochista Khakpour
Narrator: Porochista Khakpour
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Release date: May 19, 2020
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment. Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's way...2020-05-196h 12
Good OrbitPorochista Khakpour, Jean Grae, Kembra Pfahler, Amanda Duarte, & hosts Emily Flake & Kat Burdick
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Join comedian and New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake and Kat Burdick as they talk to the funniest and most interesting people around about what messed up things go through their heads at night. They’ll poke around looking for deeper meaning behind that dream where you’re still in high school somehow even though you know you graduated years ago and oh god, you’ve been blowing off first period all semester – and then Emily will present each guest with artwork based on their w...2020-02-0700 min
Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla, Chimene SuleymaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/399657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America Author: Nikesh Shukla, Chimene Suleyma Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 29, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post). From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions o...2019-10-2903 min
Tell Me About Your MotherBest of TMAYM, with Ashley C. Ford, Porochista Khakpour, Rebecca Traister, Aparna Nancherla, and moreIn our season 3 finale, we take a listen back through three seasons full of fascinating women. Episode sponsors: StoryWorth - visit storyworth.com/tellme for $20 offZola - visit zola.com/tellme to start your free website and get $50 off your registry completion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-12-1038 min
Tell Me About Your MotherBest of TMAYM, with Ashley C. Ford, Porochista Khakpour, Rebecca Traister, Aparna Nancherla, and moreIn our season 3 finale, we take a listen back through three seasons full of fascinating women. Episode sponsors: StoryWorth - visit storyworth.com/tellme for $20 offZola - visit zola.com/tellme to start your free website and get $50 off your registry completion2018-12-1037 min
Enoch Pratt Free Library PodcastAn Evening with Porochista Khakpour and Mattilda B. SycamorePorochista Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor's Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune's Fall's Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the 'First Fiction' category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 "Best Book of the Year" according to NPR, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Popmatters, Electric Literature, and many more. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate, Salon, and Bookforum, among many others.
Sick...2018-11-151h 11
Feminist Frequency Radio47: Top GunFFR #47: Top Gun
On this week’s FFR, we fly into the danger zone with Maverick, Iceman, Goose and the rest of the best of the best with the cultural juggernaut that is Top Gun. Is it a film carefully calculated to represent masculinity in such a way as to maximize navy recruitment efforts? Is it a film dripping with queer subtext? Can it be both? Join us for a conversation about the acting, the imagery, and questions about what really constitutes the film’s central love story.
Also, Anita announces that she’s had a life...2018-10-1055 min
LA Review of BooksPorochista Khakpour: Reflections on Being SickAuthor Porochista Khakpour joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf to talk about her new book Sick: A Memoir, which chronicles her struggle with Lyme disease. Porochista discusses how she identified the illness, how it has affected her career and day to day life and how she navigates the experience of being a young sick woman in contemporary society.
Also, LARB's Medaya Ocher recommends Ali Smith's novel Autumn.2018-09-0743 minSkylight Books Podcast SeriesPorochista Khakpour, "SICK"Sick is Porochista Khakpour’s arduous, emotional journey—as a woman, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems—through the chronic illness that perpetually left her a victim of anxiety, living a life stymied by an unknown condition. With candor and grace, she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness, her addiction to the benzodiazepines prescribed by her psychiatrists, and her ever-deteriorating physical health. A story about survival, pain, and transformation, Sick is a candid, illuminating narrative of hope and uncertainty, boldly examining the deep impact of illness on one woman’s life.
Khakpour is in conve...2018-08-131h 16
Library TalksChronicling Illness with Porochista Khakpour and Eileen MylesFor as far back as she can remember, writer Porochista Khakpour has been sick. She was recently diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease and has written her first memoir about her illness, Sick. Khakpour sat down with one of her literary heroes Eileen Myles for a conversation about her experience with the disease and how it has affected her as a writer, activist, and lover of New York City. Khakpour says "it's a diaristic book and I wanted there to be a lot of honesty... a lot of capturing myself, not at my best but at my worst." T...2018-08-0759 min
Library TalksChronicling Illness with Porochista Khakpour and Eileen MylesFor as far back as she can remember, writer Porochista Khakpour has been sick. She was recently diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease and has written her first memoir about her illness, Sick. Khakpour sat down with one of her literary heroes Eileen Myles for a conversation about her experience with the disease and how it has affected her as a writer, activist, and lover of New York City. Khakpour says "it's a diaristic book and I wanted there to be a lot of honesty... a lot of capturing myself, not at my best but at my worst." T...2018-08-0759 min
Ordinary Vegan PodcastOrdinary Vegan Podcast #42: Toxic Chemicals Hiding In Everyday ProductsHealth and wellness are not merely about diet and exercise, but also about limiting our exposure to toxic chemicals. For the past two decades, toxic chemicals have been added to everything from make-up, household cleaning supplies, clothing, pots, pans, building materials, mattresses, and even perfume. And scientific studies are now showing us that chemicals found in a wide array of household goods are more toxic than we thought. Today's podcast is devoted to unveiling the most common toxic chemicals that could unknowingly be harming your health and how to avoid them. We will...2018-08-0131 minOrdinary Vegan PodcastOrdinary Vegan Podcast #42: Toxic Chemicals Hiding In Everyday ProductsHealth and wellness are not merely about diet and exercise, but also about limiting our exposure to toxic chemicals. For the past two decades, toxic chemicals have been added to everything from make-up, household cleaning supplies, clothing, pots, pans, building materials, mattresses, and even perfume. And scientific studies are now showing us that chemicals found in a wide array of household goods are more toxic than we thought. Today's podcast is devoted to unveiling the most common toxic chemicals that could unknowingly be harming your health and how to avoid them. We will...2018-08-0131 min
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenSick: A Memoir by Porochista KhakpourPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341186to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Sick: A Memoir
Author: Porochista Khakpour
Narrator: Yetta Gottesman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Release date: July 10, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Women
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Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018 Huffington Post’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipat...2018-07-107h 38
Listen to Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenSick: A Memoir by Porochista KhakpourPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sick: A Memoir Author: Porochista Khakpour Narrator: Yetta Gottesman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018 Huffington Post’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 Bitch’s 30 Most Anti...2018-07-1005 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSick: A Memoir by Porochista KhakpourPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sick: A Memoir Author: Porochista Khakpour Narrator: Yetta Gottesman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books Bustle's 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list Nylon's 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Electric Literature's 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018 Huffington Post's 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Bitch's 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018...2018-07-1005 min
Slate ConversationsPorochista KhakpourPorochista Khakpour is a novelist and the author of Sick: A Memoir. She talks with Isaac Chotiner about how she was diagnosed with Lyme disease, why people who suffer from Lyme are often ignored or disbelieved, and how Americans still don’t understand how to communicate with people suffering from serious illnesses. Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod Podcast production by Max Jacobs.Listen to I Have to Ask via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-07-0641 minSkylight Books Podcast SeriesLeni Zumas, "RED CLOCKS"Life, liberty and property: for every embryo.
This is the effect of the Personhood Amendment, passed by a new president with big ideas. Not only does the Personhood Amendment outlaw abortion (and threaten anyone involved in the act with a charge of second-degree murder), it also prohibits in vitro fertilization and adoption by unmarried persons. In Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks, four women in Newville, Oregon, are left to navigate this new landscape: Ro, a biographer desperate to have a baby while writing the untold story of a female polar explorer; Susan, a mother trapped in suburbia with...2018-06-301h 01
Reading WomenEp. 36 | Most Anticipated New Releases of 2018 Pt. 1We're back, bookish friends! With our first regular episode, we chat about some of our most anticipated releases of 2018.
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Find a full version of th...2018-01-2431 min
All the Books!All the Backlist! December 22, 2017This week, Liberty discusses Silver Sparrow, Every Heart a Doorway, The Cat’s Table, and more great older books.This week’s episode is sponsored by Bookaxe. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017!Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of...2017-12-2211 min
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryEileen Myles : Afterglow“What is a dog if not god? In Afterglow, Eileen Myles steps up to the challenge for writers to function as prophets. Ghostwritten in part by deceased pit bull Rosie, this ‘dog memoir’ explores—among other things—geometry, gender, mortality, evil, aging, and plaids. Myles makes new rules for what prose writing can be. Afterglow is Myles’s funniest, profoundest work yet.”—Chris Kraus
“Only Eileen Myles could reinvent the memoir again so stunningly; Afterglow is the sort of multidimensional love story you could only expect from one of our greatest experimental writers living today!”—Porochista Khakpour
The post Eileen...2017-10-191h 27
Ampersand: The Poets & Writers PodcastAmpersand Episode 15: Salman Rushdie, Nicole Sealey, Dawn Lundy MartinSalman Rushdie in conversation with Porochista Khakpour; readings by poets Dawn Lundy Martin and Nicole Sealey and essayist Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas; and more.2017-08-1633 min
Vermont Studio CenterVSC Reading Series: Porochista Khakpour 5/28/17Porochista Khakpour was boron Tehran in 1978 and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. She is the author of The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury) and Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic). Her memoir Sick is forthcoming in 2017. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, Bookforum, Al Jazeera America, Vice, GQ, The Paris Review Daily, Elle, Spin, Slate, Salon, Poets and Writers, The Rumpus, Guernica, among others. Currently she is the Writer in Residence at Bard College.
VSC thanks the Ro...2017-06-221h 34
Tell Me About Your MotherEpisode 2: Porochista KhakpourPorochista Khakpour is a highly acclaimed author. Her fiction books, Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion, have received and been nominated for various awards and she also contributes essays frequently to a variety of outlets. Her forthcoming memoir, Sick, chronicles her journey in dealing with late-stage Lyme disease. Porochista also teaches writing at Columbia University and has also taught at Bard College. She immigrated to the United States as a refugee from Iran as a child. In this episode she tells us about navigating the Iranian and American identities with her mother, and how her mother dealt n...2017-05-2740 minTell Me About Your MotherEpisode 2: Porochista KhakpourPorochista Khakpour is a highly acclaimed author. Her fiction books, Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion, have received and been nominated for various awards and she also contributes essays frequently to a variety of outlets. Her forthcoming memoir, Sick, chronicles her journey in dealing with late-stage Lyme disease. Porochista also teaches writing at Columbia University and has also taught at Bard College. She immigrated to the United States as a refugee from Iran as a child. In this episode she tells us about navigating the Iranian and American identities with her mother, and how her mother dealt n...2017-05-2737 min
The JuggernautNovelist Porochista KhakpourPorochista Khakpour is an artist, a journalist, an Iranian-American and an academic, and that makes her story as relevant and resonant today as it's ever been. She talks about leaving Tehran at age three, her extreme Type-A childhood reaction to the immigrant experience, and what it's like to try and break down misperceptions about being "The Other" in today's America. Notes: Follow Porochista - @PKhakpour For more on Porochista - porochistakhakpour.com Check out Chris's new novel - WarOnSoundbook.com Follow The Juggernaut - @JuggernautPod Find the J...2017-03-061h 14
TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books PodcastEp. 26: Mike Scalise & Ariel Lewiton Pt. 1In part one of the TK One Year Anniversary Jubilee, Mike Scalise discusses his phenomenal memoir, THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE. He talks with James about being diagnosed with the hormonal disorder acromegaly, the difficulties he encountered writing about it, the blind spots of memoir, what it's like to be a public representative of a rare condition, and the complexities of ordering middle grade Bobby "The Brain" Heenan bios through university inter-library loan. Will they discuss Mike's beloved Steelers? (Spoiler: No) - Mike Scalise: http://mikescalise.tumblr.com/bnc Mike and James Discuss: S...2017-02-071h 20
Three Percent Podcast#114: BTBA Shortlists, The Vegetarian, DioramaIn this week's podcast Tom and Chad talk about the recentlyreleased Best Translated Book Award shortlists, beforemoving on to discussion of the two Reading the World ConversationSeries books for April: The Vegetarian by Han Kang and Diorama by Rocío Cerón. Additional articles and books discussed include, PorochistaKhakpour's review of The Vegetarian in the NYTimes, Don DeLillo's Zero K, Gabriella Coleman'sHacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, and A.J. Somerset'sArms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun. 2016-04-261h 02
New Books in Science FictionPorochista Khakpour, “The Last Illusion” (Bloomsbury USA, 2014)Porochista Khakpour moved to an apartment with large picture windows in downtown Manhattan shortly before September 11, 2001, giving her a painfully perfect view of the terrorist attacks.
“The big event of my life was of course 9/11,” Khakpour says. “I experienced a lot of post traumatic stress from it and think about it constantly.”
It’s no surprise that the assault on the Twin Towers features prominently in her writing. Through non-fiction essays and two novels, the Iranian-born writer has tried to understand the tragedy’s impact on her, the nation, and the world.
But while her es...2015-07-1733 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 345 — Porochista KhakpourPorochista Khakpour is the guest. Her novel The Last Illusion is now available from Bloomsbury.
Claire Messud says
“Utterly original and compelling, Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion weaves Iranian myth with very contemporary American neurosis to create a bittersweet poetry all its own. This ambitious, exciting literary adventure is at once grotesque, amusing, deeply sad—and wonderful, too.”
And Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it
"An audaciously ambitious novel that teeters along a tightrope but never falls off."
Monologue topics: big news, superstition, not wanting to be dominated by superstition despite demonstrably being dominated by superstition by knocking wood repe...2015-02-111h 22
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 318 — Merritt TierceMerritt Tierce is the guest. Her debut novel Love Me Back is now available from Doubleday.
The Oxford American says
“What’s so compelling about this compulsively readable yet highly literary novel is not the 'unflinching' depiction of Marie’s behavior—though it’s crafted so carefully that readers want to consume each detail—but instead the beautifully plain and unsentimental access Tierce gives us to her protagonist’s interior…How rare it is to find a writer who can encapsulate a character’s sweeping motivation in a page or paragraph or single sentence…Tierce’s magnetic portrayal of a woman whose behavior...2014-10-051h 21
The Bat Segundo Show & Follow Your EarsPorochista Khakpour II (BSS #545)In this wide-ranging 79 minute conversation, Porochista Khakpour discusses how she fused the romantic with the grotesque for her second novel, THE LAST ILLUSION, birds as an inevitable cultural symbol, growing up as an Iranian immigrant, quirky and pragmatic attitudes to death, Kafka and Kierkegaard, and academics who misinterpret authenticity,2014-05-141h 18
Free Audiobook in Fiction, LiteraryThe Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The Last Illusion
Author: Porochista Khakpour
Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-13-14
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Summary:
From the critically acclaimed author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects comes a bold fabulist novel about a feral boy coming of age in New York, based on a legend from the medieval Persian epic The Shahnameh, the Book of Kings.
In a rural Iranian village, Zals demented mother, horrified by the pallor of his skin and hair, becomes...2014-05-1310h 58
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionOn Such a Full Sea: A Novel by Chang-Rae LeePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204430to listen full audiobooks.
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Author: Chang-Rae Lee
Narrator: Bd Wong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Release date: January 7, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10
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Genres: Literary Fiction
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“Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lo...2014-01-0711h 05
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianOn Such a Full Sea: A Novel by Chang-Rae LeePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel Author: Chang-Rae Lee Narrator: Bd Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian Publisher's Summary: “Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, be...2014-01-0705 minDownload Incredible Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianOn Such a Full Sea: A Novel by Chang-Rae LeePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204430to listen full audiobooks.
Title: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
Author: Chang-Rae Lee
Narrator: Bd Wong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Release date: January 7, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 10
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Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
“Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lo...2014-01-0711h 05