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The connections between her life as a pediatrician and a novelist are clear to
Nadia Hashimi. “It comes down to having an interest in the human story,” says Hashimi, who lives in Potomac. “Sitting down with people and trying to get some context for what their situation is, their priorities, their decision-making. All of those pieces come together to determine their trajectory, the prognosis for their life.” Like her other novels, Hashimi’s latest,
Sparks Like Stars (William Morrow, March 2021), draws on her Afghan family background. This book focuses on a young girl who survives the 1978 coup in Afghanistan. It’s a story of how she escapes to the United States, rises above the trauma, and years later reclaims a connection with her homeland.
Imagining Generous, Black Futures With Hanif Abdurraqib
How and when do you divest yourself from an artist? What does it mean that we were all born under a different moon? This week, join host Lauren Korn and poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib in a conversation about his 2021 must-read,
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance.
From the multitude of miracles, magic, and wonder found in everyday moments to choosing to see and understand the world through lenses of generosity and gratitude, theirs is an energetic and uplifting back and forth.
About Hanif:
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in
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Oprah Magazine. Tin House books have made the
New York Times’ and other national bestseller lists, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, been longlisted and among the finalists for the National Book Award, and more.
Talty, 29, began teaching in the Native studies program at BMCC in 2018. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Native American studies from Dartmouth and a Master of Fine Arts from Stonecoast University of Southern Maine. He also teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Maine and literature/college writing at Husson University.
For Talty, writing has always been a passion. He finds himself inspired by Native writers who have come before him and those telling their stories today. “I’ve always been a storyteller. As I got older, I found writing fiction and nonfiction to be my medium through which I told stories,” says Talty. “Like so many Native tribes, there is very little representation in popular culture ther