Playlists
by Kaveh Akbar, January 26, 2024 9:20 AM
Martyr! is the debut novel from poet Kaveh Akbar. As you might expect, the language, the sentences, and the ideas are all exciting and vividly rendered with an intense musicality. This quality allows the novel to strike a fine balance: it is both a thoughtful novel of serious ideas and a propulsive intellectual romp. We’re overjoyed to feature it as one of our Picks of the Month.
The characters interact with and refer to music and musicians in myriad ways throughout, and we’re overjoyed to have, direct from the author himself, a playlist featuring all the music and musicians from the book.
Save this playlist now, because you won’t be able to put the book down for long once you’ve started!
And don't miss Kaveh Akbar's visit to Powell's — we're hosting him for an event next Friday, February 2. He'll be in conversation with Karen Russell at Powell's on Burnside.
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Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.
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