Iowa poet hits best-seller list with his first novel “Martyr!”

The debut novel from a University of Iowa creative writing instructor has cracked the New York Times’ best-seller list and Kaveh Akbar will headline the Celebration of Literary Arts in the Des Moines metro today. The book “Martyr!” is fictional but follows the true-life 1988 American downing of an Iranian passenger jet that killed 290 […]

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