About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Bonn, GermanyTwitter
Books Archive
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May 20: Katie Hafner Reading in Berkeley
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Big ups to Andy Raskin!
Posted on May 13, 2009 | No CommentsBig ups to my buddy Andy Raskin, whose memoir The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life has just been released. I attended a reading of his at Booksmith last night in the Lower Haight. But don’t worry,... -
Big ups to Jaimal Yogis!
Posted on May 1, 2009 | No CommentsMy Columbia classmate and pal Jaimal Yogis’ first book, Saltwater Buddha is out today. It’s been met with great reviews thus far. He’s been hit by the Monterey Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco magazine. Congrats, Jaimal! -
The Reluctant Communist
Posted on February 22, 2008 | 1 CommentLast night I watched Crossing the Line, an amazing documentary about Joe Dresnok, the last American defector to North Korea. After putzing around the Internet, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that one of Dresnok’s fellow defectors, Charles Robert Jenkins, who has since left... -
A View of the Bosporus
Posted on September 29, 2007 | No CommentsPico Iyer on Orhan Pamuk: Pamuk has two enduring loves: books and Istanbul. Often they converge as his journeys through his hometown come to resemble excursions through memory itself. Like Proust, Pamuk has spent decades of his life — 15,300 days, he calculates — in... -
Meet Masood Farivar
Posted on September 25, 2007 | 2 CommentsMasood Farivar, a current Dow Jones reporter and former Harvard student and mujahedeen has a book deal about his Afghanistan days: “Confessions of a Mullah Warrior.” He’s the only person I’ve ever met online or in person that has the same family name as me,... -
The best taco truck in Oakland
Posted on March 19, 2007 | No CommentsSo after trying Monica’s favorite burrito place in the East Bay, Chavez Market in Hayward this weekend, I still haven’t found any burrito superior to the ones from El Ojo de Agua in Fruitvale. I just found a January 2006 piece from the Chronicle talking... -
Shafer skewers Kapuściński
Posted on January 26, 2007 | 2 CommentsSlate: Scratch a KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski enthusiast and he’ll insist that everybody who reads the master’s books understands from context that not everything in them is to be taken literally. This is a bold claim, as KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski’s work draws its power from the fantastic and presumably true... -
Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932 – 2007
Posted on January 24, 2007 | 5 CommentsBBC: Poland’s most celebrated journalist and non-fiction writer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, has died in Warsaw, aged 74, after a heart operation. I first discovered Kapuscinski after being given a copy of The Shadow of the Sun by my good friends Alan Wiig and Brynna Jacobson shortly... -
The Great Teacher of Journalists, by Kim Jong Il
Posted on November 29, 2006 | No CommentsThis book was originally published in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1983. From the preface: “New innovations and wonders which are being made every day in the press, the growing up of real men or genuine writers, and emotional legends of love for...
