Q&A: Literary BFFs Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar take on the Bay Area
Tommy Orange and Akbar recently stopped along their tour to discuss their friendship, uncanny parallels between their novels ...
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The little miracles that saved Kaveh Akbar, author of ‘Martyr!’, one of the novels of the year
After a dazzling career in poetry, the Iranian American author makes his novelist debut with ‘Martyr!’, a story based on his ...
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Kaveh Akbar's Narratives of Love
In Kaveh Akbar’s haunting poem “ Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards,” the flower becomes a personified presence, ...
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What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
Inside a Book Tour Turned Road Trip With Best Friends and Best-Selling Authors Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar
The authors of the celebrated novels ‘Wandering Stars’ and ‘Martyr!’ are each other’s valued early readers. “We both wrote ...
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Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar Take ‘the Band’ on the Road
Wandering Stars author Tommy Orange and Martyr! author Kaveh Akbar teamed up for a Bay Area book tour this month, stopping at ...
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Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar discuss their friendship and going on book tour together
Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar write about serious events in life. Tommy Orange, member of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes, begins his last book, "Wandering Stars," with the murder of 230 Native ...
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The death effect
It is not every day that you get to share a storm cloud with the author of your favorite book. But at my side, there Kaveh ...