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1. www.npr.org › 2020/09/14 › 911981941It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His ...

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   Sep 14, 2020 · The narrator's name is also Ayad Akhtar, and it reads like memoir ... but it's a novel. Some of the fun lies in trying to tell what's fact and what's fiction. For example — Akhtar's father was...

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     Industrial storytelling and the alternative | Ayad Akhtar | TEDxBroadway

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3. newrepublic.com › article › 160796A Novelist’s Reckoning With Identity Politics | The New Republic

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   Jan 6, 2021 · Akhtar’s narrator, also called Ayad, represents a fictionalized version of the novelist himself.

4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/09/21An American Writer for an Age of Division - The New Yorker

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   Sep 14, 2020 · The novel, which turns on Akhtar’s sense of alienation as a Muslim man in the United States after September 11th, leans into provocation: we see the narrator fucking a white woman in an...

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   Sep 14, 2020 · The narrator's name is also Ayad Akhtar, and it reads like memoir ... but it's a novel. Some of the fun lies in trying to tell what's fact and what's fiction. For example — Akhtar's father...

6. www.litcharts.com › lit › disgracedDisgraced by Ayad Akhtar Plot Summary - LitCharts

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   She noticed the men’s Muslim skullcaps and heard them talking about Muslim oppression, so she called the police. The police arrested Hussein and Tariq, and the FBI interrogated both of them, threatening to deport them.

7. www.spokesman.com › stories › 2020Book review: For Ayad Akhtar, success in a land that fails him

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   Sep 7, 2020 · The interior design of “Homeland Elegies” might include elements of fiction, but the architecture is clearly the author’s life: The narrator is a man named Ayad Akhtar, the son of Pakistani...

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   Who narrator is Ayad Akhtar?

   • Bo Hamby and Reena Advani produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web. The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of reality TV.

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar has never been afraid of provoking audiences. His latest work explores the origins of Trump’s toxicity, the tensions of Muslim identity, and the splintering of a family and a country. Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambivalence. Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker

   An American Writer for an Age of Division | The New Yorker

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   How did Akhtar become an actor?

   • Akhtar discovered acting at Rochester, and transferred to Brown to pursue it. The program was like a conservatory: he was in acting class two hours a day, four days a week, and otherwise translating, directing, producing, and performing. At the end of Akhtar’s senior year, Andre Gregory gave a talk on campus.

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   Is Akhtar serious about his work?

   • Akhtar is serious about his work to a point that can delight collaborators, or drive them mad. He and Boras met when she was cast in an early reading of “Junk”; they decided not to work together again. “I get really nervous when I have a show going up,” he said.

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   Is Ayad Akhtar ambivalence?

   • Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambivalence. Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker A year after Donald Trump assumed office, Ayad Akhtar was at the American Academy in Rome, contemplating populism, the degradation of democracy, and ruinous civil strife.

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   Was Akhtar's father a doctor?

   • For example — Akhtar's father was a successful doctor in the United States. The narrator also has a doctor father, who treats and falls under the spell of then-businessman Donald Trump. Was Akhtar's father really Trump's heart surgeon?

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9. www.economist.com › 2015/09/03 › q-and-a-ayad-akhtarQ&A: Ayad Akhtar - The Economist

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   Sep 3, 2015 · In some of his characters, this rage is in the name of Allah directed at America; in others, it is rage by Muslims towards those whose interpretation of Islam is so intolerant that they feel their...