9 min listen
Author Azar Nafisi says books can help you really live
Author Azar Nafisi says books can help you really live
ratings:
Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Mar 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She does this in a series of letters to her late father who passed on in 2004. Nafisi says that reading can help us really live and also help us, and has helped her, survive challenging times. Nafisi told NPR's Scott Simon that literature's purpose is to let us experience new worlds: "to come out of yourself, and join the other."
Released:
Mar 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
'Cloud Cuckoo Land' by Anthony Doerr by NPR's Book of the Day