ARYA'S WRITING & READING BLOG

Few people (on the Left anyway) have failed to realize one month into the new regime that we are under siege. The dictator has gutted Medicaid; devastated federal workers and agencies; is proposing citizenship, the equivalent of a green card, for rich foreigners for a $5-million dollar fee, in order to create a world class of greedy goons to overtake this country. Most heinously, he recently posted a video proposing "Trump Gaza," the obscenity of which one cannot begin to address. He is stealing from the American people as we speak. Protest and resistance are the right of every American and the duty of poets, writers and artists who envision themselves a voice for the disenfranchised. FRIDAY FEB. 28, 24-HOUR ECONOMIC BLACKOUT. Take a stand. #protest #resist And check out this website to see what's coming up next: https://thepeoplesunionusa.com/ "I would remind writers to see themselves as witnesses, and to always speak the truth to the people, as well as truth to. po...

Here's my favorite section of a recent four-star review of my novel, Punk Disco Bohemian, which appears in both Goodreads and Amazon and is written by Iranian-born writer Neda Aria. "A coming-of-age story steeped in the hedonism and upheaval of the 1970s, Punk Disco Bohemian plunges the reader into an era of shifting social norms, disco-lit dance floors, and radical self-invention. Ali is at the center of it all, navigating a world that offers both exhilarating freedom and unexpected dangers. She parties, she experiments, she stumbles. Through Jenkins’ unembellished prose, we follow Ali’s journey without romanticism or nostalgia—just the raw, unfiltered reality of youth in search of meaning. "Jenkins is not interested in the usual sentimental beats of the genre. Instead, she offers a protagonist whose self-destructive tendencies are as compelling as her yearning for connection. Ali’s encounters—with lovers, friends, and strangers—are transactional in nature, fueled by a m...