Notable Quotable: Azar Nafisi on Why Literature Matters


By Josephine Reed
""For me literature is like blood. You don't see it but if it stops running in the veins, life stops."
Hear more from Azar Nafisi in this Art Works podcast. Visit the NEA stage at the National Book Festival on Saturday, September 5 to hear from Nafisi live as part of the panel "Why Literature Matters: A Conversation about the Importance of the Imagination” with Jane Hirshfield  and Jeff Brown.