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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best of - Salar Abdoh

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing · Jun 27, 2025 · 1:06:21

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Salar Abdoh is the author of Out of Mesopotamia, Tehran at Twilight, Opium, and The Poet Game, and editor and translator of the celebrated crime collection, Tehran Noir.  He divides his time between New York City and Tehran, Iran. He is a professor at the City University of New York’s City College campus in Harlem, where he teaches in the English Department’s MFA program and also directs undergraduate creative writing. His new novel is called A Nearby Country Called Love.

We talked about the influences on his creativity, masculinity, life in Iran, gender and gayness, writing stories close to home, and finding love and belonging.
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