Recent Fiction
Guernica, “The Deer-Vehicle Collision Survivors Support Group“ (February 2010)
FiveChapters.Com, “In the House of Desire, Honey, Marble, and Dreams“ (Winter, 2008)
Recent Nonfiction
New York Times, “On Crashing Allen Ginsberg’s Funeral” (January 25, 2013)
Slate, “Why Did Nancy Lanza Love Guns?” (December 17, 2012)
CNN, “Why HBO’s ‘Girls’ is Appealing” (April 14, 2012)
New York Times Arts & Leisure, “A New Persian Empire Plants a Personal Flag” (March 11, 2012)
New York Times Arts & Leisure, “Reality TV Goes Where Football Meets the Hijab” (November 13, 2011)
Out Magazine, “Cyber Drag” (Dec 2011/Jan 2012 double issue)
Guernica, “The Others” (introduction to the special Iranian-American issue, Khakpour edited and curated) (November 1, 2011)
Granta.com, “Today is a Sunny Day: Ten Years of Trying to Write About 9/11″ (August 30, 2011)
Salon, “The King of Iranian-American Flash and Trash” (April 19, 2011)
The Paris Review Daily, “Dreams and Work: On ‘Light Years’” (April 6, 2011)
New York Times Op-Ed, “Ringing in the Year 1390″ (March 20, 2011)
Guernica, “Camel Ride, Los Angeles, 1986″ (February 2011)
Strangeland (Issue One), “Meography Lessons,” (fall/winter 2010, not available online)
The Rumpus, “This Book Will End Your Life: The Greatest Modern Persian Novel Ever Written” (reprint of the introduction to the new edition) (October 8, 2010)
New York Times Op-Ed, “My Nine Years as a Middle-Eastern American” (September 12, 2010)
Tottenville Review, Transcript of my Desert Academy Commencement Address (September 2010)
Los Angeles Times essay, “Iranians Moving Past Negative Depictions in Pop Culture” (June 27, 2010)
New York Times Op-Ed, “Finally, ‘Thirtysomething?’” (August 23, 2009)
New York Times Op-Ed “Islamic Revolution Barbie” (March 9, 2009)
The Daily Beast essay (February 11, 2009) , “What I Saw At the Revolution”
Canteen essay (Issue Three, 2008), “Autobiography of a Debut Writer: Eleven Snapshots of Literary Life”
New York Times Summerscapes Series Op-Ed, “Pool Waters Run Deep” (July 20, 2008)
Nerve.com essay, “The 20-Year-Old Virgin” (2005)
(available in the Chronicle Books anthology Bad Sex: We Did It, So You Won’t Have To)