Sepideh Saremi

Tonight, watching Dariush Mehrjui’s newest film, Santouri, I thought my eyes would pop out of my head when I saw some Persian insults I always thought rather tame (naa-mard, for instance) subtitled “fuck-face,” “dickhead,” and “faggot,” among other choice terms.
Granted, the film is about a junkie, so these words captured the spirit of the dialogue, […]

So, here we go: A blog. Though I’ve had numerous blogs (mostly navel-gazers) through the years, this one is a fresh start and that is always exciting.
I suspect I’ll keep things simple and use this space to point to any new work I’ve had published, link to stuff I’m reading/watching/hearing and enjoying, write about writer-y […]