Salar Abdoh reads from his novel Tehran at Twilight. Gina Nahai reads from her novel The Luminous Hearat of Jonah S. Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English at Wellesley, introduces the two writers. The discussion took place on April 4, 2015 as part of the Distinguished Writers Series at the Newhouse Center. Salar Abdoh was born in Iran, and splits his time between Tehran and New York City, where he is codirector of the Creative Writing MFA Program at the City College of New York. He is the author of The Poet Game and Opium. His essays and short stories have appeared in various publications, including the New York Times, BOMB, Callaloo, Guernica, and on the BBC. He is the recipient of the NYFA Prize and the National Endowment for the Arts award. He is the editor of Tehran Noir and the author of Tehran at Twilight, his latest novel. Gina B. Nahai is a best-selling author, and a professor of Creative Writing at USC. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages, and have been selected as “One of the Best Books of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Nahai’s books include Cry of the Peacock(1992), Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith (1999), Sunday’s Silence (2001) and Caspian Rain (2007),. Her new novel, The Luminous Heart of Jonah S., was published by Akashic Books in October, 2014.