929. Porochista Khakpour

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Porochista 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 featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	Hi everybody, welcome to the show. This is the Other People podcast, a weekly program featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
1:14.5	I'm Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. I appreciate you being here. Don't forget to subscribe to this show.
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1:29.6	TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Blue Sky. So my guest today is Porichista Akpur, author of a new
1:41.5	novel called Tarangeles. It was such a depressing time.
1:46.0	And so this book was the one thing that I could work on that gave me some sort of purpose.
1:52.0	And I got more and more interested in it.
1:55.0	But it was, you know, it was really challenging.
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