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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 507, my conversation with author Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi. This episode first aired on March 7, 2018. Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Call Me Zebra, named a Best Book of the Year by over twenty publications and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award, the John Gardner Award, and long listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. Her other novels include Savage Tongues and Fra Keeler, for which she received a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" award. She is the 2023-2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fiction Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. A recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the Aspen Institute, MacDowell, and Art Omi, her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories (Ed. by Min Jin Lee and Heidi Pitlor), The Sewanee Review, The Yale Review, The New York Times, and The Paris Review among other places. In 2020, she founded Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance, a conversation series focused on the intersection of the arts and transformational migrations. Born in Los Angeles, she spent her childhood in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Spain, and speaks Farsi, Italian, and Spanish. She is the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary 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 @otherppl Instagram  TikTok 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

Welcome back Bookends to another episode in our Debut Spotlight series where we shine the light on the freshest authors and their work! For today's episode we were joined by debut novelist of 'I Will Greet The Sun Again', the incredible Khashayar J. Khabushani.We discuss his highly contested debut, how he can read multiple books at once, why basketball means so much to him, why his mother is such a huge inspiration and so much more, we hope you enjoy this conversation and we hope it encourages you to read his beautiful book so you can fall in love like we did. As always, if you enjoy this episode please do rate, review & subscribe so we can reach more of you!To buy 'I Will Greet The Sun Again': https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/i-will-greet-the-sun-again-khashayar-j-khabushani/7310803?ean=9780241514733To follow us: https://linktr.ee/apairofbookendspodBooks mentioned:Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah NelsonThen the War and Selected Poems, 2007–2020 by Carl PhillipsSavage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet OloomiChain Gang All Stars: A Novel by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Middlemarch by George EliotSlam! by Walter Dean MyersSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThank you so much for listening & until next time, happy reading! Han & Lyd x

This episode we're talking about Hate Reads! We discuss annoyance reading, hate reading vs reading something you hate, completionism, experiencing bad media as a social bonding experience, and 1-star reviews of books. Plus: Books about women murdering! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Wikipedia) "A spectre is haunting Europe” Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Game of Thrones (Wikipedia) Divergent by Veronica Roth “Divergent might have been sloppy in places, but in a bizarre continuity error, both Tris' disabling trauma around guns and an actual gun appears and disappears as is convenient in the final chapters… This violates both Chekhov's Gun and some corollary: if you introduce a gun, it must exist.” (from Jam's review; see also “I'm not reading another YA trilogy unless someone guarantees me no queer people die in the second act”) Insurgent by Veronica Roth The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir “reading this book felt like having to eat three bags of raw spinach before I was allowed the ice cream sundae I'd been promised” (from Matthew's review) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Links, Articles, and Things 161 (number) (Wikipedia) Schadenfreude (Wikipedia) Mark Oshiro (who Jam mentioned) appears to have deleted their YouTube channel? Or Something? You can still go to their website and the Mark Reads website. Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast Episode on Ready Player One A recent(ish) episode of Watch+Play (there's a lot of them!) There's also this playlist of shorter, edited videos if you don't want to commit Hark (Jam's holiday music podcast) Hot take (Wikipedia) Hate-watching (Wikipedia) Episode 011 - Religious Fiction (the one in which Anna read the book she hated) BookTok (Wikipedia) Matthew can't find the specific X-Men review he mentioned, but it's buried in this site somewhere (that link specifically is to a scathing review of the final issue of Mutant X) Show, don't tell (Wikipedia) Questions What Romance genres do you want us to read? What comic would you use to introduce superhero comics to adults (who haven't read them before)? Twitter thread Experimental Fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy Big City by Marream Krollos Search History by Eugene Lim Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels by  Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga Oreo by Fran Ross We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson I was the President's Mistress!! by Miguel Syjuco Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 1st we'll be discussing the genre of Investigative Journalism! Then on Tuesday, November 15th we'll be talking about Podcasts!

Our bookshelf shows are the ones where we get to cut loose and follow our own preferences, so listen in as Kate tries to figure out the best way to show up for her life after reading Oliver Burkeman's 4,000 Hours. Meanwhile Laura is drawn into 'A dark world of desire and fantasy' with French prizewinner No Touching by Ketty Rouf, we figure out via an emergency call to an Irish friend how to pronounce Colm Tóibín, but unfortunately this doesn't help Kate in her struggle with his book about Thomas Mann, The Magician. Laura gets on better with Brit Bennett's book The Mothers, which she can't put down. Finally, Kate has a new girl-crush on Canadian author Sheila Heti after reading her book Motherhood. Booklist 4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman No Touching by Ketty Rouf The Magician by Colm Toíbín Motherhood by Sheila Heti The Mothers by Brit Bennett Laura also mentioned Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Little by Edward Carey and Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid. Get in touch with us and tell us what you're reading or recommend us a book on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email thebookclubreview@gmail.com. Find our full episode archive at thebookclubreview.co.uk and don't forget to like, subscribe, tell a friend, share on social media – it helps us reach new listeners and we really do appreciate it :)

PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of literati darlings Call Me Zebra and Fra Keeler took to Greenlight's virtual stage to launch her third novel, Savage Tongues—a personal and political exploration of desire, power, domination, and human connection that's equal parts Marguerite Duras and Shirley Jackson, Rachel Cusk and Clarice Lispector, tracing a young woman's search for healing in the fall-out of an affair with a much older man. Joined by the inimitable poet Eileen Myles, Oloomi discussed the kaleidoscopic thinking propelling her book, the power of women's retelling, the practice of transcribing life, and how life eludes transcription. (Recorded October 12, 2021)

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Sürgün, hareket halinde olma hâli ve göç konuları Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi'nin edebiyatının merkezinde yer alıyor. Sonbahar 2020 sezonumuzda ABD'den çevrimiçi programlara konuk ettiğimiz Oloomi ile bu kez, bütün bu konuları kapsayan enine boyuna bir sohbet için İstanbul'daki stüdyomuzda buluşuyoruz. Oloomi'nin kitaplarında yürümek, seyahat, coğrafya nasıl bir yer tutuyor? Özellikle son bir buçuk yılın kaos ortamı ve kısıtlamaları düşünüldüğünde, yer değiştirmek yazar için ne anlam ifade ediyor? Bu konuşmada, Oloomi'nin Türkçeye çevirisi devam eden yeni kitabı Savage Tongues'dan da söz edeceğiz. Kimlik, cinsiyet, iktidar, yaş konularını merkeze alan bu politik roman, Margot Livesey'nin deyişiyle "hafıza ile deliliğin arasındaki bıçak sırtı çizgide yürüyerek gençliğini kurtarmaya çalışan" bir kadınla tanıştırıyor okuru. Oloomi ile İstanbul Edebiyat Evi'nin çekirdek ekibinden Thomas Roueché söyleşiyor.Podcast dili İngilizcedir, buluşmanın Türkçe altyazılı video kaydını ise YouTube kanalımızda izleyebilirsiniz.

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel Savage Tongues, available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her previous novel, Call Me Zebra, won the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the John Gardner Award. She was a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree for her debut novel, Fra Keeler, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the Paris Review, Guernica, Granta, and BOMB. She splits her time between South Bend, Indiana, and Chicago.  *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  YouTube 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

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is the author of three novels. Her second novel Call Me Zebra won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the John Gardner Award, was long listed for the PEN Open Book Award, was an Amazon Best Book of the Year, A Publisher's Weekly Bestseller and named a Best Book by over twenty publications. She received a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award and was a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree for her debut novel, Fra Keeler.  Her latest novel is Savage Tongues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alia and Nebal (thank you Nebal for guest co-hosting!) got to talk to author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi about her newly released novel Savage Tongues!  The novel examines gender constructs in Islam and the West, and the intersections of sexual desire and violence amidst the ongoing subjugation of the Middle East to imperialism. In the book, she argues for queer intellectual exchange and female friendship as alternative structures to oppose patriarchy, heteronormativity, and the imposed religious, racial, and ethnic homogeneity of nationalism. In addition to talking about the novel itself, we discussed shared experiences navigating coming from a mixed…

This week, Liberty and Danika discussDamnation Spring, Fresh, When the Reckoning Comes, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen Fresh by Margot Wood Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu The Turnout by Megan Abbott I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander Ghosts by Dolly Alderton The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould  WHAT WE'RE READING: All Are Welcome by Liz Parker The Sentence by Louise Erdrich The Stand by Stephen King MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir by James Tate Hill Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson  The Husbands by Chandler Baker Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round by Amy Wright All's Well by Mona Awad Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara Palm Beach by Mary Adkins The Dating Dare by Jayci Lee The Mismatch by Sara Jafari Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel Sherrell The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert  We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz  The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad  So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park  Songs for the Flames: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Did I Say You Could Go by Melanie Gideon Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Dangerous Play by Emma Kress Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II by Kaia Alderson The Night Singer by Johanna Mo The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul by Lucy Jones Then She Vanishes by Claire Douglas Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn The People We Keep by Allison Larkin Billy Summers by Stephen King Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed  The Godstone by Violette Malan   Tin Camp Road by Ellen Airgood The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia Immediate Family by Ashley Nelson Levy Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman  Pilgrim Bell: Poems by Kaveh Akbar Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond by Halimah Marcus Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette Mercury Boys by Chandra Prasad A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee  Meant to Be: If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares by Tehlor Kay Mejia Waiting for the Waters to Rise by Maryse Condé and Richard Philcox See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the podcast, Angela speaks with Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, author of Call me Zebra and her new novel Savage Tongues. Azareen tells Angie about traveling with healing in mind, how mothers and daughters speak to one another, and the way riding a horse makes her feel.

This week on the podcast, Angela speaks with Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, author of Call me Zebra and her new novel Savage Tongues. Azareen tells Angie about traveling with healing in mind, how mothers and daughters speak to one another, and the way riding a horse makes her feel.

In episode 210, the girls are joined by author Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi! They talk about Azareen's upbringing all over the world, her family dynamics, what influences her writing, and of course her books Call Me Zebra and Savage Tongues. Savage Tongues is currently available for pre-order and drops tomorrow, August 3rd! Get your self a copy and follow Azareen on Instagram at @azareen.vandervlietoloomi and check out her website here where you can find more of her work! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

"Bana Zebra Deyin" romanıyla Türkiye'de de tanınan İran ve Hollanda kökenli ABD'li yazar Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Sonbahar 2020 sezonumuzda İstanbul Edebiyat Evi'ne iki ayrı etkinlikte konuk oldu.Burada yayınladığımız ilk buluşmamızda Oloomi'den yazarlık ve kimlik üzerine, sürgün, göç ve milliyetin edebiyatta nasıl karşılığını bulduğunu anlattığı, kendi kitaplarından ve onu dünyanın dört bir yanına taşımış hayat deneyiminden yola çıkan bir konuşma dinledik ve ardından kendisiyle sohbet ettik. Podcast dili İngilizcedir, buluşmanın altyazılı video kaydını ise YouTube kanalımızda izleyebilirsiniz.

We like to try and do something special around the holidays.In 2019, we counted down our Top 5 most-played episodes of the year. But we thought we’d try something a little different for 2020.If you’re a regular listener of the show, you’ve probably figured out we like to read. A lot. So this time, we’re revisiting five of our favorite interviews we’ve done with authors in the three-and-a-half seasons of making this podcast. We call it “Happy Author Days.”This one is our conversation with PEN/Faulkner winner Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, titled “On Exile, Literature, and Feeling Small Before the Page” and first published on August 1st, 2019.We hope you enjoy the episode and come back for the final installment in the series tomorrow.LINKSAzareen’s PEN/Faulkner-Winning Novel: Call Me ZebraOriginal Episode Transcript

The idea behind this show is pretty simple: We invite scholars, makers, and professionals out to brunch for an informal conversation about their work, and then we turn those brunches into a podcast.It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.For our season 3 premiere, we talked with author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, an associate professor of English at Notre Dame and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the largest peer-juried prize for novels and short stories in the United States.Azareen was recognized for her second novel, Call Me Zebra, published last year by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The book also won the John Gardner Fiction Book Award and was named a Best Book by a number of media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly and Harper’s Bazaar. Azareen was previously the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and honored as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2015.Host Ted Fox started out by asking her to read from Call Me Zebra, after which they talked about the book, the complicated journey of its unforgettable protagonist, and whether there’s any such thing as original writing.

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Welcome to the second series of Unsound Methods. In this episode we speak to Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, the author of Call Me Zebra from Alma Books (in the UK). Azareen's debut novel was Fra Keeler. Topics covered in our chat included research, working with editors and the paths that reading can take while putting a novel together. Thanks to Burley Fisher bookshop for providing us with the recording space for this episode. You can find Call Me Zebra here: [https://almabooks.com/product/call-me-zebra/](https://almabooks.com/product/call-me-zebra/) And follow Azareen on twitter: [@avandervliet](https://twitter.com/avandervliet) Follow us [@unsoundmethods](https://twitter.com/unsoundmethods) or [unsoundmethods.co.uk](https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/)

Today on No Limits we talk to the winners of the 2018 Indiana Authors Award, Deborah E. Kennedy, Elizabeth Klehfoth and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi.

National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi has been hailed as an author “on the verge of developing a whole new literature movement” (Bustle) and, now, her new novel, Call Me Zebra, affirms her “brilliant, demented” (Kirkus) genius as she explores the ways in which we cope with grief, our unresolved histories, and the tangled depths of love. More than a decade after fleeing Iran during the height of the Iraq War, Zebra, now an orphan, must face life in exile alone, with literature as her only armor. To reconcile her past and uncertain future, Zebra embarks on a literary pilgrimage, leaving America to retrace her family’s dislocation. As she traverses the vast expanse of the Western Mediterranean, she’s guided by the sage words of Cervantes,Borges, Stendhal, and Dali. But her journey back to Iran quickly derails in Barcelona when Ludo, a stalwart realist mystified by her intensity, enters the picture and the two begin a sexy, if fraught, affair.

“Not many authors are compared to Borges, Cervantes, and Kathy Acker all in one breath, but that is exactly what we’re dealing with here: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is a twisted, twisty genius.”—Nylon Magazine “Van der Vliet Oloomi captures the shattered identity of the refugee and the immigrant, the way that literature becomes a […] The post Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi : Call Me Zebra appeared first on Tin House.

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi sat down with Helen Little to discuss her debut novel Call Me Zebra.

Bassem Youssef, author of Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss what it's like to launch an entirely new genre in the Middle East - mass media political satire (modeled upon Jon Stewart's Daily Show) - and then become Egypt's most popular TV host before having to flee the country. Youssef has lost none of his wit or political insight since his days on center stage of an actual revolution; and the conversation is laden with relevance for a certain country dealing with a dangerous, wannabe-authoritarian leader. Youssef's analysis of the role of political satire during troubled times delivers a pointed lesson for all us taking solace in the wit of Colbert, Bee, SNL & Co. Also, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Call me Zebra, returns to recommend Claire Lispector's The Passion According to G.H.; a classic of Brazilian literature from 1964. Azareen reads a stunning passage that foregrounds a central concern of all serious authors, how words fall short.

Brad Listi talks with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of the novel CALL ME ZEBRA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Oloomi is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Fiction to Catalonia, Spain. She currently teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame and splits her time between South Bend, Indiana and Florence, Italy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It has always been my dream to record extremely likable #content, and in this episode, I think I've finally done it. I talk about Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's Call Me Zebra and Inio Asano's Goodnight Punpun, but also relatable topics like sweaty Manga dudes, the Death Stranding trailer, when bae be acting crazy, work, finding porn, poop gods, Don Quixote and how little my opinions matter. There's something for everyone! Music by Dawn Ray'd: https://dawnrayd.bandcamp.com And Leechfeast: https://drycough.bandcamp.com/album/neon-crosses Follow me on twitter on @DeathSentencePC and send me warm, encouraging emails at deathsentencepodcast@gmail.com (Seriously guys, this episode is so likable, you don't even know.)

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher to discuss her first novel, Call Me Zebra, released to universal praise this past month. In his review for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Nathan Scott McNamara, describes how Zebra, “the precocious narrator, a self-proclaimed “connoisseur of literature,… is unvaryingly brilliant and deadpan funny… the smartest narrator you will encounter this year.” Through her travels, tragedies, romance, and voracious reading of canonical literature, this book of ideas captures the “the experience of exile, deftly threading the narrative with theory while also using theory to pull the reader in.” In conversation with Azareen, we learn about a young author ambitious enough to take all this on and produce a captivating work of literature. Also, Giulia Sissa stops by to tell how she fell in love with Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) as a young woman and remains under its spell to this day.

#ThatBnl is live with its host K. T. Conte discussing Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's "Call Me Zebra" with indie writers Jim Mosquera, Hannah Carmack and writer/musician Sarantos. Also shoutout to Black History Month! WARNING: Spoilers! Opening beats provided by Emz of the Future

K. T. Conte gives a shoutout the book that we will be discussing on the end of the month, "Call me Zebra" by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi; discussed her love for Black Panther and the move to diversity and inclusion, and makes an announcement for March's #BNL pick

#RECURRENT, is a new series at Civil Coping Mechanisms, which launches two titles in 2016 and is edited by Janice Lee, author of Damnation,Reconsolidation, The Sky Isn't Blue, and Executive Editor of Entropy. The series will push the boundaries of narrative with books that seek to reconstruct, reimagine & expand on existing narrative spaces. Not bound to genre or category, #RECURRENT books will be intuitive, instigative, innovative, sensitive, perceptive, heart-breaking, and honest. More than anything, #RECURRENT is interested in writing that gestures towards intimacy in different ways, in writing that isn’t afraid to reveal or retreat, and writing that makes us feel all the feelings. Blind Spot (Civil Coping Mechanisms) Here, memory like a dripping faucet, slowly leaking events and considerations, one constantly feels like they are balancing on a teetering chair. This rigorous investigation of being leads one to consider the way a world revolves around a man like a vortex, the propensity of clipped phrases that alter, edit, build, revise, a constant modification of the one way one sees the world, exists in the world, remembers. Repetition, like stuttering, leads one through and around the vortex of consideration, yet like poetry the language points and articulates, then stutters again, the text as a glitchy archetype of keeping track, of observation, of the harmonious discontinuity of time’s ebb and flow: “There is no break in the harmony, and no seeing anything but for what it is.” This brilliant, poetic novel weaves a new structure for narrative, forces the reader to consider the complex and profound structures hidden in a record of time, each observation of the utterly quotidian transforming into a lyrical evocation of essential significance. Each repetition is a surprise, and each consideration an impossible enigma. Narrated by a mysterious and clairvoyant consciousness, Blind Spot, is both blind and honest, isolated and compulsive, and achieves with such magnificent beauty a reconceptualization of seeing and reading that one might enter this book through its first lines and wish to never come out again. Praise for Blind Spot "This is a gorgeous slippery novel in the mode of Georges Perec or Magdalena Tulli or Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi or . . . Harold Abramowitz! I read it with a tumbling sort of pleasure by a small body of water as a hummingbird with a purple throat came and went. It, the bird, seemed, in its hovering, to be trying to read Blind Spot over my shoulder. Is that why it kept coming back? One impossibly exquisite thing seeking another?"—Danielle Dutton “It’s one thing to write a novel about trauma – to tell a coherent story, to create (and be comforted by, to whatever extent) a narrative arc of pain and loss. But it’s something else entirely to find oneself inside a series of imagistic and syntactical loops – a Venn diagram of partial thoughts (or dreams or memories) that become more certain and more troubling each time they refuse to relate or resolve. Harold Abramowitz’s Blind Spot is not about anything – about, from the Old English, ‘outside of.’ Instead, it’s a kind of prayer made out of attention (Simone Weil). Incantatory and somatechnic. I fucking love this book. Abramowitz writes the mind and body (in trauma, in everyday life) from the knotted and careful inside."—TC Tolbert “Like a careful clinician, a mathematician of the soul, Abramowitz takes us on a voyage of cautious deliberation. How does he do it? How is it that he creates such deep suspense and eager, almost anxious, anticipation through such minute & slightly various ministrations of lexicon? Alongside him we become careful detectives of our narrators’ confusions & disappointments even as we try to discover, again alongside him, just where it is that the center of those confusions lie …. It is a strange, unsettling, and beautiful book.”—Veronica Gonzalez Harold Abramowitz is from Los Angeles.  He is author and co-author of books of poetry and prose, including Dear Dearly Departed, Not Blessed, and UNFO Burns A Million Dollars. Harold writes and edits as part of the collaborative projects eohippus labs, SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and UNFO. Gaijin (Civil Coping Mechanisms) “I build a body back from these fractured myths and severed edges.”—Jordan Okumura, Gaijin How can a family be a demolition of the self and a home one lives in? How does a fractured body heal a trauma through connection? Deeply embedded in the novel Gaijin, by Jordan Okumura, is an unsettling nostalgia for family and for her Japanese culture, haunted by whispers and by abandoning, by illness and isolation, by silence and trauma. The novel attempts to simultaneously track a personal rupture and a family, through the painful and awkward reclamation of the self after sexual violence and the evocation of a patriarch who is half dreamed, half real.  The narrative bravely plows forward in reconciling two disparate sources of grief in order to heal them, trying to articulate the inarticulatable in a style that straddles genres—part memoir, part mythology, and part eulogy to a grandfather.Gaijin, a first novel for Okumura, is so powerful in its poetry and aching, it crushes the breath out of you as you read, cracks your chest wide open. Though the sum of Okumura’s exquisite metaphors is often grim, tragic, there is always a glimmer in the yearning. Praise for Gaijin  “And what is the measure of self inside grief? Jordan Okumura’s novelGaijin is a body song. By weaving stories of loss and myth, Okumura brings an identity to life, half real, half imagined. I was mesmerized from start to finish.”—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Small Backs of Children “Labile, alluvial, fricative, abrasive, Gaijin cuts a channel through stone which takes the shape of its own persistence. I want to say your name with a rock beneath my tongue. It stages and restages memory to pinpoint the exact site where the skin broke and the shard sank in, then gestures towards a moment-after wherein this wound, inverted, might become both shield and sword. A nervy, unnerving book.”—Joyelle McSweeney, author ofDead Youth, or, The Leaks “Gaijin makes possible the impossible language of trauma.”— Molly Gaudry, author We Take Me Apart   “To pirate, to scratch. To press or be pressed: “into the girl corner.” To watch: “the water run home.” How the cliffs “ignite.” Jordan Okumura’sGaijin is an extraordinary book of poetry written, or so it feels, into the axial space of memory, embodiment and dream. In it, a grandfather, a man “born from tears and war,” moves from space to space, just as the narrator does: the “river floor,” the garage that becomes a Japanese theater, the mouth “that is already closed.” What does it mean to have had a hand in one’s “own erasure”? I was very moved by Okumura’s decision to make a book the site of “wet erosion,” tongueless. And yet the stories pour out, “beautiful” in their “heat.” Towards the question. Of what it would be. “To stop.” I am honored to write in support of Gaijin, which takes it’s place in the contemporary literatures of exile and diaspora: an index of fire and water, “original bone,” and light.”—Bhanu Kapil, author of Schizophrene   “Reading Jordan Okumura’s poetic prose will change the way you breathe and the way you move. Her prose reaches inside you, caresses the very core of who you are, and transforms what you thought you knew about love, hope, and desire in unnerving ways. Her writing does not simply remind me of the writing of Carole Maso, Helene Cixous, and Marguerite Duras; her writing extends this tradition of intimate, passionate writing that does not fear the pain of seeing into truth. Gaijin will awaken you to new ways for seeing and feeling. Each time I have read Gaijin, I have come to know something new about myself, about my own heart. It is rare for a first novel to look in such a relentless and courageous way into familial relationships and memories as does Gaijin.”—Doug Rice, author of Between Appear and Disappear   The narrator of Jordan Okumura’s haunting and evocative Gaijin says “I “want to live the life of tongues.” But what if that tongue has been inscribed with the language of others? In lyric prose born of breath and body, Okumura wrestles with questions like: How to find one’s self when “memories don’t know how to stay past?” How to “reconcile the possibility of a girl and men” when those men have stolen all possibility from the girl? How to escape the legacy of a father when that father “is me. Wrapped in the stone of me?” In doing so, she gives us a beautifully fractured story of a journey to uncover the history of a woman hidden within the history of a family. I dare you not to fall under Okumura’s spell.”—Peter Grandbois, author of Nahoonkara Jordan Okumura is a writer and editor. Her work has been published inGargoyle, DIRTY:DIRTY (Jaded Ibis Press), Black Rabbit, and First Stop Fiction. Jordan lives and works in Sacramento, California where she is an editor for trade news publications in the agricultural industry and is a regular contributor at Enclave/Entropy. Gaijin is her first book.

Nov. 19,2015. Colin Barrett, Angela Flournoy, Megan Kruse, Tracy O'Neill, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi read selections from their work in this program honoring young emerging writers who are poised to make a lasting impression on the literary landscape. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7143

Nov. 19, 2015. Colin Barrett, Angela Flournoy, Megan Kruse, Tracy O'Neill, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi participate in moderated discussion with Benjamin Samuel, programs manager at National Book Foundation, sponsors of this program honoring young emerging writers who are poised to make a lasting impression on the literary landscape. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7144