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An Emptiness Yet to Come

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Harvest

By Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Anna Bruno: Suspense, Secular Gods, and Scandal in an Elite Catholic School

Maria Kuznetsova Interviews Anna Bruno

Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, and Salon, among other publications. She has been awarded fellowships from Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, VCCA, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Ucross, and Yaddo. Her debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic), was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice,” Chicago Tribune “Fall’s Best,” and 2007 California Book Award winner. She is currently Picador Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and core faculty at Fairfield University’s low-residency MFA program.
http://www.porochistakhakpour.com
Essay MENARace

The Others

By Porochista Khakpour November 1, 2011

Our guest editor Porochista Khakpour explores the protean category of “Iranian-American” and its assorted manifestations.

Fiction Family & Relationships

The Deer-Vehicle Collision Survivors Support Group

By Porochista Khakpour February 1, 2010
This is the storm right before the calm, she is letting it all out now, because she knows it’s coming. She wants to go home, even if it is what she used to call hell sweet hell.
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