Jamil Jan Kochai
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Delighted to announce that my debut short story collection "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak" is available for preorder at: and hits bookstores on July 19, 2022. If you'd like a sneak peek of some of the stories in the collection, check out the thread below!
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Let me tell you a story. This is Susan Lung. She taught me to read and write in a single year when I was 7 years old. I've been looking for Susan, hoping to thank her in person, for almost twenty years. And then she surprised me at my reading last night.
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My father always used to say in Pashto that every child is a rocket filled with fuel and all they need is a single spark to lift off into the sky. Ms. Lung, he said, was my spark. Throughout my life, I've been blessed to encounter a series of remarkable teachers that have
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given me their time and consideration and knowledge, but everything really began with Ms. Lung. And I thought it was important that people hear her story, and that they know how much one teacher, in one year, can change a child's entire life.
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When you read the headline "American soldier abducts baby from Afghan family", you can't actually imagine how much worse the whole story gets. Joshua Mast is actively refusing to return an Afghan baby to her loving family who desperately want her back.
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Ms. Lung sat with me almost everysingle day after school, giving me extra lessons in reading and writing so I could catch up with the rest of the class. By the end of the year, I'd learned to read and write, and by third grade, I was winning awards for reading comprehension.
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me over to Ms. Lung, and seven year old me finally got to hug my 2nd grade teacher again. We chatted and smiled and cried a litte. I signed her book and tried to write on the page what I couldn't express with my voice. I took down their numbers and invited them for dinner.
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My family and I all gathered together for the call. My parents had been wanting to thank Ms. Lung for years as well. When I finally got the chance to hear Ms. Lung's voice, tears welled up in my eyes. I told her that everything I'd accomplished I owed to her, and that I thought
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After that, my family moved a few times more and I lost track of Ms. Lung. For years afterward, all throughout highschool and college, I tried to find Ms. Lung, to thank her for everything she'd done for me. I searched google and social media. I called my old school and visited
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of her all the time and that I'd been searching for her for years. We all cried that night. Unfortunately, this was at the height of the pandemic, and we were still qurantining at the time. We promised to meet in the future. After that, my wife and I had a child, the Afghan
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I came to the US at 1 and a half years old, but I grew up in a household that only spoke Pashto & Farsi, so when I started kindergarten, I didn't know a word of English. I don't think my teacher knew how to handle an ESL student. He used to punish me for not understanding his
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years earlier, after 99 Nights in Logar came out, somone reached out to me out of the blue on Facebook. It was Ms. Lung's husband! Apparently Allen Lung heard about an article I wrote for LitHub where I mentioned Ms. Lung. He asked me if I wanted to speak with her that night.
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Government collapsed, my beloved grandmother died, I finished at Stanford, and I published The Haunting of Hajji Hotak. It was a hectic time and we lost touch. But then, last night, after my reading, Ms. Lung's husband, Allen, rushed up to me, introduced himself, and brought
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But I'd completely forgotten all the English I'd learned in school! I remember on the morning of my first day in 2nd grade, I could only recall 10 letters from the alaphabet. I was was way behind and on track to be left back. But then I had the fortune of meeting Ms. Lung
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The district office. But I kept hitting deadends. The main problem was that I didn't know Ms. Lung's first name! She'd always just been Ms. Lung to me. In my mid 20s, I'd pretty much given up on the search. I figured Ms. Lung had moved on to a new state, a new life. But a few...
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directions. We moved a lot in those days as my father searched for work and I went to three diffrent schools in 1 year. I continued to struggled with English. Then, after first grade ended, my family went back to Afghanistan for the summer. I fell in love with Logar, but...
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Thank you for all the kind comments, especially from the teachers! I know how often teachers are overworked, underpaid and mistreated in this country, but a good teacher can mean the world to a student struggling with a new language or a new community. Wishing you all the best!
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For those asking, heres the link for my new book "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories":
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When I found this photo in an old box ten years ago, I almost lost my mind when I saw that Mrs. Lung's first name wasn't there! I felt like a detective running into another deadend. It was so frustrating!!
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I can't overemphasize how much you need to immediately read this horrifying but incredibly written article from
@rozina_ali
. She has done an incredible service. The US killed this baby's parents, painted them as terrorists, then a white soldier used that lie to abduct that baby.
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You HAVE TO read or listen to the whole article. Joshua Mast's deranged, racist obsession with taking this poor baby from her family is a horrifying summation of the mindset that led to so much death and depravity during the 20 year US occupation of Afghanistan. It's so fucked up
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The baby's loving Afghan family was misled into entering the US where that white evangelical Christian soldier took their baby under false pretenses and has been keeping her for an entire year as her Afghan family desperately navigates a foreign legal system to get her back.
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to bring attention to this horrifying case and to support this Afghan family's endeavor to get their baby back. May Allah have mercy on the baby's parents murdered by the US and may Allah grant patience and success to the Afghan parents currently fighting to save their child.
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And now our broken and racist US legal system is allowing this sociopath to keep this Afghan baby in his home even as it's abundantly clear that he repeatedly lied and gamed the system to get the baby in the first place. I really hope that Afghans and Muslims, especially, cont.
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I've been waiting years to write this story. In 2007, my father was in a work accident that left him with permanent, debilitating injuries. This is an essay about that ordeal, about labor in America and the social systems that fail laborers, and how a man
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Whenever I got in trouble in 6th grade, I used to tell my teacher: "let me off this one time, and I swear I'll get into Stanford one day." Well, it took an extra decade or so, but I'm happy to say that I'm finally going to be attending Stanford as a Stegner Fellow in 2020, iA.
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@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN
Here's my short story "Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain", inspired by my favorite video game franchise of all time, in case anyone wants to read...
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Book unboxing with Papa Kochai for Pub Day! A certain review almost ruined my morning, but the support I’ve seen from everyone, especially my Afghan community, has meant the world to me and my family. Please consider ordering The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories today!
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If you enjoy philosophy, literary analysis, and video games check out
@yacobg42
's youtube channel: . He included my story "Playing Metal Gear Solid" in a beautiful video essay on writing and video games and it's not even my favorite video of his.
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First thing that came out of my mouth was "no". Absolutely unreal. Thank you to the judges and congrats to the other
#NBAwards
finalists. What a dream!
Congratulations to the
#NBAwards
Fiction Finalists: Tess Gunty, Gayl Jones,
@JamilJanKochai
, Sarah Thankam Mathews (
@smathewss
), and Alejandro Varela (
@drovarela
)! And the Fiction publishers:
@AAKnopf
,
@penguinrandom
,
@beaconpressbks
,
@VikingBooks
,
@astrahousebooks
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More and more of these reports keep leaking out. The Australians executed civilians in fields, the British massacred men in their homes, the Americans were mutilating Afghans and wearing their body parts as trophies and yet people still want this war and occupation to continue.
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It was a beautiful week at the
@nationalbook
ceremony. I walked my first red carpet and heard Keanu Reeves and
@PadmaLakshmi
shout out The Haunting of Hajji Hotak! Congrats to all the finalists but especially Tess Gunty and my dear friend
@smathewss
who wrote incredible books.
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Such a tremendous honor. Thank you to
@AspenWords
, the judges, and my fellow nominees.
JUST ANNOUNCED: “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories” by Jamil Jan Kochai (
@JamilJanKochai
) wins the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize prize.
#AspenLitPrize
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My youngest sister Breshna got into UC Davis today. All four of her older siblings applied and were rejected coming out of high school, but she finally broke the curse! Mubarak, Bresh! InshaAllah, you keep on breaking curses.
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InshaAllah, my family and I are organizing another fundraiser for Afghanistan. Millions of Afghans are currently at risk of starvation. We plan to collect funds to purchase food and other necessities for impoverished families in Logar, Baghlan, and Kabul:
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Opened twitter to see myself tagged in this post, my heart leapt but when I clicked the post to confirm it was for
#NBAwards
, my service in Logar dropped, so I rushed outside onto the fields, in the middle of the night, searching for a signal. Still feels absolutely surreal. Tysm
.
@JamilJanKochai
, Sarah Thankam Mathews (
@smathewss
), Leigh Newman (
@leighnew
), Marytza K. Rubio, and Alejandro Varela (
@drovarela
)
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Still flabbergasted that
@NYerFiction
has decided to publish a second story from my upcoming collection "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak" (July 2022). I'm not saying I'm going to become a regular at
@NewYorker
, but this is getting ridiculous!
This week's story is “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” by Jamil Jan Kochai.
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New story in the
@NewYorker
!
This week's story is "On the Night of the Khatam" by Jamil Jan Kochai.
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Alhamdullilah, so deeply honored to be long listed for the National Book Award for Fiction. Feels absolutely surreal. Thank you so much to the judges and congrats to the other incredible nominees but especially my friends,
@smathewss
&
@J_Escoffery
. What a night!
#NBAwards
We are beyond excited to share the ten books on the Longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction!
@NewYorker
#NBAwards
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Honored to have been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2021 by
@HeidiPitlor
and
@jesmimi
and delighted to be sharing the spotlight with my friends
@bwhobson
and
@cpamzhang
!
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Honored to announce that I'll be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University for the 2022-2023 academic year!
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can spend his entire life putting all his self-worth in the ways his body can be exploited for its labor, only to find out one day that he can no longer work. This was a difficult piece to write, but thank you to the
@NewYorker
for giving me the space to tell this story.
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I'm so floored by all the kind responses. But please do keep Afghanistan in mind as well. There is an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, exacerbated by devastating American sanctions, which harm impoverished Afghans, in particular Afghan women & kids, more than anyone.
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Alhamdullilah, it's such a tremendous honor to be selected for the Clark Fiction Prize at
@txstmfa
by the inimitable Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Thank you!
.
@JamilJanKochai
’s story collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, has won the 2024 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize. The $25,000 prize is one of the largest literary awards in the United States.
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A white woman in Canada violently murdered a Somali woman but is only being charged with manslaughter. Paige Theriault-Fisher was caught on camera repeatedly stabbing Hodan Hashi to death. This story should be blowing up more than it is. May Allah (SWT) have mercy on Hodan Hashi.
WATCH: Paige Theriault-Fisher, 22, was released on a $5,000 cash bond Thursday morning at Saskatoon Provincial Court after being charged with manslaughter.
@ChubeyTanner
has the story.
READ MORE:
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Rereading Solmaz Sharif's "Reaching Guantanamo". I can still vividly recall the first time I read this poem in my office at UC Davis. The immensity of the loss it reflected. All that hidden suffering given a brief life. This is, I think, the pinnacle of what art can achieve.
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Asalaamalaykum everyone, my family and I are organizing a Ramadan Food Drive for Afghanistan. We will be providing daily necessities to needy families in Kabul, Baghlan, and Logar. Please consider donating or sharing. As little as $1 can really help.
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According to the UN, 80% of Gazans relied on humanitarian assistance to live. With everything else (the apartheid, the settler-colonialism, the ethnic cleansing, the ongoing blockade), the genocide in Gaza is a war of the wealthy on the poor.
People in Gaza are now resorting to using what were once animal-drawn carts to transport the wounded to hospitals. The footage is from Khan Yunis city in the south.
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Thought this would feel less surreal the second time around but finally holding the book in my hand still hit me pretty hard. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak will be arriving in stores next month!
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Just got back from the encampment at UC Berkeley to discover that students at Sacramento State have started their own encampment for Palestine today. Alhamdullilah. So overjoyed to see the movement spreading. Bless these students. Free Palestine.
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So immensely grateful to
@kmahaj
for the detailed breakdown of the issues with this review (the inaccuracies, the centering of whiteness) which, of course, points to deeper, structural issues with how art and scholarship are consumed, categorized, and valued in this country.
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To this day, my grandmother still curses the kindergarten teacher that made me cry after my first day of school because he gave every other kid candy for following directions except me (I didn't speak a word of English!), and if that's not love, I don't know what is
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Palestine seems to be on everyone's mind here in Afghanistan. Multiple strangers have brought up Gaza to me and gotten emotional speaking about the genocide. There is almost a universal desire to help the Palestinians in whatever way possible, despite economic hardships.
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Thank you to
@NYerFiction
for publishing Occupational Hazards which was inspired by my father. He broke his body to keep our family clothed and fed and loved. He's a tough old guy, but he's always had a poetic soul. Forty years later, the old man is still in love with his flowers
This week's story is "Occupational Hazards" by Jamil Jan Kochai.
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A collection of brilliant and innovative essays on the craft of writing, Letters to a Writer of Color is out now! So proud to be listed among these incredible writers including
@ingrid_rojas_c
@lesbrains
@KieseLaymon
@amitavakumar
and many others!
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I usually can't read without a pen in hand because I have to mark sentences and jot notes, but
@AriaAber
's "Hard Damage" is a poetry collection that takes hold of your entire body. One line after the next, one poem after another, you are enraptured. Truly, I cannot overstate 1/3
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After a couple of months of mad pandemic editing "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak" is finally just about ready to be submitted
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For those upset about the (completely avoidable) self-destruction of
@PENamerica
, buy a ticket to this alternate event that is actually uplifting Palestinian writers.
At least 70 authors have now dropped out of
@PENAmerica
events in an unprecedented act of solidarity with Palestinian writers.
Today we are announcing an alternative event to mark this collective action, to hear from these authors and from writers from Gaza.
Join us at Judson
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First time back in Logar in five years. Watak's marker has changed a lot over the years, but the village remains as beautiful as ever.
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Even though she's had a year, Selgai still hasn't finished 99 Nights!
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Alhamdullilah, the paperback edition of "99 Nights in Logar" is available for purchase. If you haven't picked up the book yet, try to find the paperback at your local book store using the link below! I can't believe it's been a year already. Time is nuts.
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What are your favorite debut novels/story collections from the last few years? I need to update my library!
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Very happy to announce that I'm going to be teaching a workshop as a part of the Afghan Literary Futures Project! The Project is open to emerging writers from across the Afghan diaspora, both inside and outside of the United States. So please submit an application, or share!
We at the Afghan American Artists and Writers Association (AAAWA) are proud to announce the Afghan Literary Futures Project, a series of free monthly writing workshops in Spring/Summer 2021! For more info and to apply, visit ✨
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Absolutely floored by this brilliant review from the scholar Najwa Mayer. Like all great writing, it pushes the boundaries of its genre, becoming something more than a review as it ruminates upon the state of Afghan American literature as a canon, war as structure, metaphor
“Kochai does not ‘escape’ into the surreal or magical as fictions but rather as other ways of reckoning with war’s pasts ongoing in the present. “ Najwa Mayer reviews Jamil Jan Kochai’s new collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories.”
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"He did not take her consent or her father’s to publish the image...McCurry and National Geographic would sell the picture for enormous amounts..."
Meanwhile, for the next 18 years, Sharbat Gula received nothing. One of the million ways that white art exploits its subjects.
Sharbat Gula was 8 years old. Steve McCurry invaded her all-girls school, fixated on her green eyes, got her teacher to force Sharbat into letting him pose her and photograph her. He never asked Sharbat's name, her permission, or her parents' permission.
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With the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, 9 million Afghans are at risk of starvation. My family and I are hoping to collect funds in order to purchase food and other necessities to donate to families in Afghanistan.
Please consider donating:
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A young Afghan couple, Rasul and Anila Afzili, were killed by a drunk driver just a few nights ago here in West Sacramento. May Allah have mercy on them. Their two infant children survived the crash. Please consider donating to their fund, or sharing.
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My dad is so Afghan he measures inflation rates by the cost of meat
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Still impressed by how upset this reviewer was about the Pashto chapter in my book. Read an interview and everything lol
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Deeply honored to be selected as a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award. I've been dreaming about this for a long time now. What an incredible gift. Thank you so much to the judges
@rokwon
,
@TereseMarieM
, and
@davidulin
and congrats to the other finalists! Buy their books!
Today, we are excited to announce the 5 Finalists for the 2020 Hemingway Award. Congrats to the
#PENLitAwards
family,
@ReginaMPorter
,
@tomas_moniz
,
@madelineffitch1
,
@JamilJanKochai
, and
#RuchikaTomar
!
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Millions of Afghans are at risk of starvation. Here are some resources if you want learn more and see what you can do to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe:
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In many ways, I think this is an incomplete piece. There was more I wanted to say, but I couldn't find the words. Nonetheless, I'm incredibly grateful to
@BasharatPeer
for helping me write this piece. InshaAllah, it was worth it.
“The Afghan people have been seemingly condemned to perpetual displacement.” writes
@JamilJanKochai
“War after war, invasion after invasion, Afghans are still seeking asylum.”
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So moved by this profoundly generous review from
@omarelakkad
in
@TheAtlantic
To begin a review of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak with a paragraph on an American war crime is so utterly appropriate. He beautifully describes everything I hoped to accomplish with my work. Thank you!!
American literature is necessarily littered with meditations on war, writes
@omarelakkad
. Jamil Jan Kochai’s story collection interrogates a central facet of that violence: its absurdity.
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Check out my chat with
@arishapiro
at
@NPR
. I was so nervous about this interview for weeks, but Ari was such a warm and calming presence, I feel like I didn't ramble too much! Please consider ordering "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak" today! Listen here:
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It's been a wild ten days for The Haunting of Hajji Hotak, and I've deeply appreciated all the love & support. If you'd like to keep supporting the book, please consider leaving a review at Amazon & Goodreads, requesting the book at your local library, and spreading the word!
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Honored that The Haunting of Hajji Hotak is included among this incredible list of books.
The Mark Twain House & Museum is excited to announce the Long List of titles for this year’s Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award!
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It's such a tremendous honor to be shortlisted for the
#AspenLitPrize
among these incredibly talented writers. Congrats to
@acruzwriter
@OscarHokeah
#ManuelMu
ñoz and my dear friend
@smathewss
!
ANNOUNCING 2023
#AspenLitPrize
finalists:
@acruzwriter
(HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER)
@OscarHokeah
(CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE)
@JamilJanKochai
(THE HAUNTING OF HAIJI HOTAK)
#ManuelMu
ñoz (THE CONSEQUENCES)
@smathewss
(ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT)
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What an incredible honor! Before I read Pynchon or Delillo or Baudrillard,
@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN
was there expanding my brain with tales of espionage, conspiracy, genetic engineering, PMCs, hyperreality, deconstruction, global warfare, & of course nuclear annihilation. Thank you, sir!
I received a copy of THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK AND OTHER STORIES by JAMIL JAN KOCHAI, which contains PLAYING METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN. Thank you very much.
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Last night, at 1230 AM, I started roaming Princeton in search of a gatorade when I ran into my own face in the dark. Very frightening. But very sweet. If you're in the area, come check out my reading and conversation with the incomparable Yiyun Li:
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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories turns one month old today, on Afghan Independence Day, marking the end of the third Anglo-Afghan war in 1919, which is a total coincidence and not planned at all. Here are some highlights (and lowlights 😬) from the first month!
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The feeling is totally mutual! I'm a HUGE fan of
@AriaAber
's poetry, and I haven't been this excited for a poet since the 1st time I read Solmaz Sharif's work. It's thrilling to see a new generation of Afghans in the arts, prepared to tell our own stories and create our own art.
the best thing about receiving the news about the stegner fellowship was finding out that
@JamilJanKochai
had gotten one in fiction. afghans were invisible in american letters for such a long time and i cannot wait for the gates to be broken and the landscape to change
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Delighted to see The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories mentioned in the
@nytimesbooks
review. The paperback version comes out tomorrow, July 11th. Please consider pre-ordering a copy at your local book store or here:
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Whenever I get a msg that says someone read my story aloud to a loved one, I become so deeply happy, it's almost silly. I think it reminds me that beyond everything else (media, sales, reviews) stories are meant to be these intimate gifts, and I can't imagine a higher compliment.
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Please consider donating to our fundraiser for Afghanistan! This is our fourth year in a row and Alhamdullilah the generosity of friends and strangers clothed and fed hundreds of needy Afghan families. I'll be posting pics from our past fundraisers too.
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Make sure you pick up next issue of The New Yorker, inshaAllah...
"You’ve been shooting at Afghans in your games for so long that you’ve become oddly immune to the self-loathing you felt when you were first massacring wave after wave of militant fighters who looked just like your father": a story by Jamil Jan Kochai in TNY Monday.
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Almost 18 years ago I wrote (and illustrated!) my first book "The Adventures of SUPERMOM", a semi-autobiographical story about an Afgan mother with superpowers, who has to save her children from a bacterial monster. Still trying to get back to this peak...
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Honored that 99 Nights in Logar has been selected as a finalist for the First Fiction prize in the
#CaliforniaBookAwards
. Thank you to the
@cwclub
for considering my novel.
FIRST FICTION
Last of Her Name, Mimi Lok
@kayapress
99 Nights In Logar,
@JamilJanKochai
,
@VikingBooks
On Swift Horses, Shannon Pufahl,
@riverheadbooks
A Prayer for Travelers, Ruchika Tomar,
@riverheadbooks
Home Remedies,
@xuanjuliana
,
@hogarthbooks
#CaliforniaBookAwards
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THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK AND OTHER STORIES is out today in paperback! Pick it up at your local book store or right here:
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Delighted to announce that my novel "99 Nights in Logar" has been awarded the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from
@pshares
. Thank you to the judge, Ladette Randolph!
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Hundreds of detainees including senior Taliban leaders have been released from the notorious detention centre run by the United States military.
But Asadullah Haroon, who has never been charged with a crime, remains.
‘No one bothered’: Afghan mother waits for son held in Guantanamo | Asia | Al Jazeera
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Wrote my first book review for the NYT!
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Please consider donating to our fundraiser for Afghanistan! This is our fourth year in a row and Alhamdullilah the generosity of friends and strangers clothed and fed hundreds of needy Afghan families. I'll be posting pics from our past fundraisers too.
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Military recruiters used to come to my highschool and set up a TV and an Xbox in the quad and all these teenage boys would line up during lunch and play Modern Warfare while the recruiters convinced them to enlist. I remember feeling like I was watching hunters bait a trap.
As cities shift to remove the police from schools, let’s go ahead and remove ROTC programs and ban military recruiters while we’re at it.
#PoliceFreeSchools
#SustainableOptionsForYouth
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This poem by
@AriaAber
wrecked me in the most beautiful way possible. Absolutely heartbreaking.
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