299: Laleh Khadivi!

On this week's program, I talk to the novelist Laleh Khadivi about empathy, anticipating the future, the snarl of time management, challenging oneself as a writer as a form of motivation, the absolute transformation of characters, patriarchal similarities between Middle East and West, the mystical nature of surfing, the fraught possibilities of adolescence, religious fervor, the problematic role of country to identity, and modernity and the immigrant experience.     NOTES Check out the second installment of The Drunken Odyssey's Unauthorized Film Commentary Series: https://youtu.be/VYfZUZjSgjo Subscribe to TDO's youtube channel.