Joumana Khatib
speaker
1,079 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Joumana Khatib’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He gets an adjunct teaching job at this small college where he has a friend who's a professor, and he decides to set up a course called Discovery is in Auto Fiction or something like that.
So you can sense right from the jump that he's positioning himself to write a campus novel, something that's wading into the cultural debates of the time.
And then all of a sudden,
The character Ayad Oktar is riding his bike and he gets clipped by a pickup truck.
And it's a it's a really debilitating
Injury.
He's briefly comatose.
And when he awakes, he finds that his entire existence and like window onto life is draped in this sort of, I mean, it's the radiance of the title.
It's sort of this ethereal, shimmering kind of veil over his perception.
And he finds that he's more compassionate.
He is sort of moved to tears.
More easily.
His sex drive is almost non-existent, although I would argue that it's sublimated, but that's something for another podcast.
And he begins to think, like, oh my gosh, I think maybe this was a racially motivated accident by the guy who hit me on the bike.
And then there's this like crisis on campus with a student.
It's disturbing and it's very quicksilver.
And I loved it.
Great ending also.
Great maddening ending.
I think that's totally right.
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