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Khakpour has a convenient Internet addiction.
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A sense of humor was always Khakpour’s best defense.
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“Wow! This girl can write!,” can cut both ways, Khakpour says.
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Khakpour wanted to play with the fragmented nature of memory.
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Khakpour says she’s never known a time outside of crisis.
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Xerxes serves Fruity Pebbles to his visiting father, who is deeply offended by the offering.
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Don’t cut your fingernails at night.
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9/11 was a major kick in the ass, Khakpour says.
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Since her novel came out, Khakpour has been getting lots of fan mail from Iranian bloggers.
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Iranian women, Khakpour says, are the real force in the household.
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Khakpour remembers a rattling Amtrak encounter.
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After 9/11, Khakpour says, Middle Easterners were all lumped into one category.
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Khakpour feels she has become more Iranian with age.
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Born in Iran, raised in Los Angeles, living in New York – the many sides of Porochista Khakpour.
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A brief conversation with Joan Blades, Co-Founder of MomsRising.org.
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The characters Darius and Xerxes were named after very interesting Kings in Persian history, who were wrapped up in comedies of errors.
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Because Khakpour was very interested in what makes Muslim men tick, after the events on 9/11.
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The older generations tend to be more conservative, Khakpour says.
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It can not be, Martin says, but it takes time.
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Valerie Martin on the mythology of the Big Easy.
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The influences are vast and range from race relations to hurricane Katrina to the “spooky” ethos of the city.
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Dovey reads three selections from her novel Blood Kin.
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In her filmmaking, Dovey was drawn to the beauty of farming because of the process.
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Adam Bly would like ask President Bush how he made decisions.
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Today’s generation of scientists need to think laterally, not just vertically.
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Fighting a new kind of war and watching China’s rise are prominent issues to Adam Bly.
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