Book clubs and bookshops around the Bay Area buzzed with excitement recently as two authors who happen to be best friends — Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar — embarked on a driving tour around ...

Akbar’s bestselling new novel Martyr! follows the journey of Cyrus, a newly orphaned queer Iranian man living in Indiana, who grapples with the aftermath of a U.S. military plane mistaking a ...

Tommy Orange (Wandering Stars) and Kaveh Akbar (Martyr!), literary heavy hitters in the media and BFFs in real life, embarked on a Bay Area book tour March 14–17 to promote their newly released ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar, two authors who are also best friends on a driving tour of the Bay area. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent ...

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Poet and writer Kaveh Akbar will take part in the Arts and Letters Live program at the Dallas Museum of Art on Jan. 23.(Beowulf Sheehan) Kaveh Akbar's debut novel, "Martyr!," is about an orphaned ...

Filmmaker Kaveh Daneshmand puts all his chips on the unseemly secret at the center of his sun-dappled family drama. Delphine (Sophie Colon) has what looks like a perfect family. The human rights ...

Poet Kaveh Akbar speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist about his book of journal entries and paintings, authors who also make art, and the delight of writing fiction. Facebook ...

Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel Martyr! is a book many will turn to, to find themselves — for if you are lost, this book might save you. The reader will ultimately find herself through the journey ...

In person, Kaveh Akbar radiates a vast, enveloping kindness. He engages with intense attention and such gorgeously geeky excitement that after speaking with him for just a few minutes, one’s ...

WARNING: This audio contains discussion of suicide. Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American writer who has taken the literary scene by storm with his debut novel, Martyr! And now he's the very first ...