Shohreh Laici’s work has been published in the Millions, the Brooklyn Rail, the Quarterly Conversation, Asheville Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Two Lines, and World Literature Today. You can read her essay “Trout Fishing in Tehran” in the March 2018 issue of WLT.
Photo of Tehran by Xiquinho Silva / Flickr
A writer in Tehran incapable of entering the US under the Muslim travel ban encounters Michelle Obama’s Becoming in a beauty salon....
illustration: jen rickard blair
On the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America, an Iranian writer (and devoted Brautigan reader) considers how he, perhaps ev...