Porochista Khakpour

Biography

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the memoir Sick (HarperPerennial, forthcoming 2018), as well as the novels The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove, 2007). Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Bookforum, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon, Spin, Elle, and many other publications.

See Work

CRITICISM / Fall 2017

Ackerphilia

By Porochista Khakpour

By the time Kathy Acker died, in the autumn of 1997, I was nineteen and fully under her spell, having discovered her just a few years before. Her work brought me to all sorts of feelings—lust, rage, shame, guilt, rebellion, liberation...
CRITICISM / Summer 2017

Toward a New Masculinity

By Porochista Khakpour
CRITICISM / Spring 2017

Unsettled

By Porochista Khakpour

In 2011, the writer Yiyun Li and I were both asked to judge a fiction contest for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. I panicked, that certain swoon-panic of the fellow author who is a fan, at her name next to mine. I was enamored of all...
MEMOIR / Summer 2015

My Life in the New Age

By Porochista Khakpour