AZAR NAFISI is the author of the bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran," which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran.
Her followup book is "The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books," which blends memoir and polemic with readings of her favorite American novels: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, and Carson McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Aired Oct 23, 2016