Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar

Host Eve L. Ewing chats with Kaveh Akbar, poet and bestselling author of Martyr! [https://bookshop.org/a/1252/9780593685778] about recovery communities, trying to write something that will last forever, and the unsavory personal habits of monarch butterflies. Kaveh’s two book recommendations from this episode are There, There by Tommy Orange [https://bookshop.org/a/1252/9780525436140] and Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream by Kathy Acker. [https://bookshop.org/a/1252/9780802131928] You can have these books as well as Martyr! [https://bookshop.org/a/1252/9780593685778] sent to you with our subscription box [https://withfriends.co/build_coffee_and_books/join]! Members and subscribers also get access to video of this interview so you can see our silly faces. Prefer audiobooks? Here’s a playlist [https://libro.fm/playlists/11931?bookstore=buildcoffeeandbooks] of all of our guest recs. Magnitude & Bond is a production of Build Coffee & Books [https://www.buildcoffeeandbooks.com/] and distributed by JC Productions [https://www.jeanetteharriscourts.com/].