There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more professors of color being employed by these institutions maybe there will be some change in the student populations. — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he was left… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That’s why I write long form fiction—I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share
It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The radical is simply being given more room in the mainstream. And I think young people - I'm talking about the very young millennials - they are bored by so much so fast and have such fast big brains, that they won't digest lazy uninteresting work in the way my generation might have. This is a great opportunity for those… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share
My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that, for instance… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
![“It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity emerged - we now live in a very different America. This is the power of the definitive event.” quote by Porochista Khakpour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b7/porochista-khakpour-20047_affected_it-9-11-tragedy-has-affected-us-on-so-ma_821622.jpg)
