36. Adib Khorram (Darius the Great is Not Okay)
WITS' END
English - June 03, 2020 22:54 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBooks Arts Visual Arts comics conversation art comicbooks Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kansas City native and YA author Adib Khorram has a deep love of storytelling. After a lifetime of feeling erased from popular culture, he wrote a story on he could tell—Darius the Great is Not Okay. The story follows Darius Kellner, a half Iranian kid who has always felt like an outsider as he embarks on his first trip to Iran with his family.
The book dives into diaspora, feeling like an outsider, Iranian culture, living with depression, feeling like you belong when you’re around people of a similar culture, connecting with family and more.
Adib talks to Wits’ End host Shah Emami about tea, being Iranian-American, Iranian food and culture. They go over the process of making tea, cooking Iranian dishes and cover Adib’s Darius book(s).
While covering the importance of representation in YA literature, Adib and Shah talk about Adib’s upcoming projects—Darius the Great Deserves Better and Seven Special Somethings.
Adib’s media:
Twitter: @adibkhorram
Instagram: @adibkhorram
Website: https://adibkhorram.com/
Follow Shah & the Wits’ End Podcast:
Twitter: @_shahcomics
Wits’ End Twitter: @witsendpod
Website: https://witsendpod.com/
Instagram: @shah_comics
Rate & review Wits’ End on iTunes!
Kansas City native and YA author Adib Khorram has a deep love of storytelling. After a lifetime of feeling erased from popular culture, he wrote a story on he could tell—Darius the Great is Not Okay. The story follows Darius Kellner, a half Iranian kid who has always felt like an outsider as he embarks on his first trip to Iran with his family.
The book dives into diaspora, feeling like an outsider, Iranian culture, living with depression, feeling like you belong when you’re around people of a similar culture, connecting with family and more.
Adib talks to Wits’ End host Shah Emami about tea, being Iranian-American, Iranian food and culture. They go over the process of making tea, cooking Iranian dishes and cover Adib’s Darius book(s).
While covering the importance of representation in YA literature, Adib and Shah talk about Adib’s upcoming projects—Darius the Great Deserves Better and Seven Special Somethings.
Adib’s media:
Twitter: @adibkhorram
Instagram: @adibkhorram
Website: https://adibkhorram.com/
Follow Shah & the Wits’ End Podcast:
Twitter: @_shahcomics
Wits’ End Twitter: @witsendpod
Website: https://witsendpod.com/
Instagram: @shah_comics
Rate & review Wits’ End on iTunes!