Jamil Jan Kochai in conversation with Brandon Taylor, celebrating the publication of "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories," by Jamil Jan Kochai, published by Viking Books. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis.

You can purchase copies of "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/haunting-of-hajji-hotak-other-storie/

Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of "99 Nights in Logar," a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Currently, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Brandon Taylor is the author of "Filthy Animals," a national bestseller, and "Real Life," which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction.

This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation