When a collection was turned into a love story — Back in my teenage years, I used to read every book I saw in the hands of the librarian of the local bookstore; he was a good marketing strategy, so to speak; some of the books are hardly memorable today, while others shifted the ground I was standing on. Only…

A Portray of The Modern Young-ish Adulthood — “I want someone to tell me how to live my life because so far I think I’ve been getting it wrong.” — Fleabag In 2016, Phoebe Waller-Bridge blessed us with a superbly constructed narrative about those of us who are supposed to have it all together by now but very…

Exploring the likable sociopath trope — “He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.” ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Let’s travel back to 1985 and again to 2006 when the world was introduced twice to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a creep whose mission in life is to create the finest…

The unpublished work of my father — A foggy memory of the only upstairs room in our small Persian rental house, where my father had his work desk in the corner, the computer with a huge butt, as I and my brother called it, and the bookshelves on the other corner of the room — they had…

About being authentic and finding your artistic style — I’ve been drawing for a long time, so I’ve developed quite a skill, but when it came to developing a style and finding something that I was satisfied with, it was not an easy task, and I felt stuck. Drawing wasn’t something I enjoyed doing anymore, and I deleted years’…

What Studio Ghibli characters teach us about love — I remember the first time I was introduced to a Ghibli movie, I was 9 years old and until that time the only cinematic love stories I was exposed to was Disney princesses movies, most of which felt somewhat similar to me, just a different color dress and a different…