Porochista Khakpour appears in the following:
Porochista Khakpour's Journey Through Lyme Disease, Identity, and Art
Monday, June 18, 2018
Searching for Balance and Normalcy with Autism
Monday, June 18, 2018
Porochista Khakpour on her novel ‘The Last Illusion’
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Porochista Khakpour talks about her new novel, The Last Illusion, a fabulist novel about a feral boy coming of age in New York that's based on a legend from the medieval Persian epic The Shahnameh, the Book of Kings. Khakpour tells the story of Zal, whose demented mother is horrified by the pallor of his skin and hair and becomes convinced she has given birth to a “White Demon.” She hides him in a birdcage and where he lives for the next decade. Freed from his cage and adopted by a behavioral analyst, Zal awakens in New York to the possibility of a future.
What It Means to Be a Woman with a Gun
Friday, December 21, 2012
Porochista Khakpour
Friday, August 22, 2008
She was three years old in 1980, when her family fled post-revolutionary Iran. Porochista Khakpour is 30 now, and her memories are woven into her lyrical, witty debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects just out in paperback. Kurt talks with her about the book's ...
Iranian-Americans After 9/11
Monday, November 12, 2007
Event: Porochista Khakpour will be speaking with Dalia Sofer, Marsha Mehran, and Nahid Rachlin
Monday, November 19 at 7 pm
Marco Polo and Machiavelli
Monday, November 12, 2007
Porochista Khakpour
Friday, October 12, 2007
Novelist Porochista Khakpour was three years old in 1980, when her family fled post-revolutionary Iran. She is 29 now, and her memories are woven into her lyrical, witty debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects. Kurt talks with her about the book's loosely autobiographical portrait ...