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Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar Celebrate their Artistic Mind Meld

2025/3/3
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Tommy Orange: 我和 Kaveh 是非常要好的朋友，我们在创作过程中互相支持，每周都会分享彼此的作品，并给予鼓励。这种互相支持的模式帮助我们克服了写作中的困难，也让我们的作品更加完善。我们互相鼓励对方尝试不同的创作形式，例如我鼓励 Kaveh 写小说，他鼓励我写诗。这种创作交流不仅提升了我们的写作水平，也加深了我们之间的友谊。在写作过程中，我们分享彼此的创作灵感，互相学习，共同进步。Kaveh 对成瘾问题的理解帮助我在《Wandering Stars》中更好地描写这一主题。在写作第二部小说时，我感受到了比第一部更大的压力，但 Kaveh 的支持帮助我克服了这些困难。 Kaveh Akbar: 我和 Tommy 的友谊对我的创作影响深远。我们通过互相发送“加油笔记”来支持彼此的写作。Tommy 的鼓励让我在写作小说时感到动力十足，他的支持让我更有信心去尝试新的写作形式。在写作《Martyr》的过程中，我大量阅读小说和看电影，从中汲取灵感。Tommy 每周都会分享他的新作，这对我来说是一种巨大的鼓励和支持。我们互相分享创作灵感，互相学习，共同进步。我们对艺术和生活的看法有很多相似之处，这使得我们的合作更加默契。我们之间的友谊也体现在我们对彼此作品的欣赏和支持上。

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Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar share the story of their friendship's origin, stemming from a professional encounter that blossomed into a deep personal and creative bond.
  • Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar met when Tommy gave a reading at Kaveh's institution.
  • Their friendship began with a shared interest in each other's work.
  • The duo started exchanging poems and pages, which eventually turned into a regular creative exchange known as 'cheer notes'.

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Have you ever felt so creatively connected to someone that it’s like you share the same brain? That’s how acclaimed writers Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar describe their relationship. They’re best friends who wrote their recent novels “Wandering Stars” and “Martyr” by sending each other “cheernotes” in which they “waved [their] pom poms with genuine excitement at what the other’d just wrought from the ether,” as Akbar puts it. The two are embarking on a Bay Area driving tour to celebrate their friendship and art, and they join us on Forum.

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**Tommy Orange, **novelist, his books include "Wandering Stars" and "There There," which was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

**Kaveh Akbar, **poet and novelist, his books include "Martyr!," a National Book Award finalist