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: Oakland, CATwitter
Books Archive
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Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize!
Posted on October 12, 2006 | 4 CommentsI can’t think of anyone more deserving of this prize. As he wrote in the International Herald Tribune earlier this year: It is because all writers have a deep desire to be authentic that even after all these years I still love to be asked... -
Tim O’Reilly wrote a biography of Frank Herbert?
Posted on September 22, 2006 | No CommentsIn what may be the geekiest literary matchup I’ve ever seen, I just found out that Tim O’Reilly wrote a biography of Frank Herbert in 1981. The bad news is it’s out of print, but the good news is that Tim’s put it up on... -
What I Just Finished Reading : Shah of Shahs
Posted on August 18, 2006 | No CommentsShah of Shahs, by Ryszard Kapuscinski (1992). A quick read but an intimate literary impressionist tale of the Iranian Revolution and the effects before and after. -
What I Just Finished Reading : Maximum City
Posted on August 18, 2006 | 2 CommentsMaximum City, by Suketu Mehta (2004). An astonishing portrait of a city that I knew nothing about: Mumbai (Bombay). It’s a biographical love letter to a megapolis that sports everything from strippers to Mafia dons and Bollywood stars, with dashes of street poets and masala... -
Chine-Afrique: Le Dragon et l’Autruche
Posted on August 17, 2006 | 6 CommentsSo I don’t know which is more ridiculous, the cover of this new book Chine-Afrique: Le Dragon et l’Autruche (China-Africa: The Dragon and the Ostrich), or the fact that it would cost me 40 € to buy the book and have it shipped to the...
