Writing Westward Podcast

061 - Navied Mahdavian - This Country: Searching for Home in Very Rural America

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A conversation with cartoonist Navied Mahdavian about his graphic novel memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023).

Navied Mahdavian is is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker since 2018. You may have also seen his work in Readers Digest, Wired, and elsewhere.

Find him at @naviedm on Instagram, on his substack ToonStack, or his at https://www.naviedm.com/.

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 Podcast Notes:

  • Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
  • Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
  • Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
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