"When I first started writing, it was much more important for me to appeal to academic audiences or an imagined high-art literary audience. The older I get, the more important it is for me to communicate with everyone and anyone. Right now to me, America is in a crisis of constant misunderstandings. Some of it is willful ignorance, but some of it is not willful and it requires people to explain thingsā¦"
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On how her writing has evolved in āPorochista Khakpour: āThis Was the Sort of Book You Write to Stay Aliveā in Bookish (2018 Jun 8)
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