Daniel Nayeri
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Oct 28, 2026
AnthonyHOST
This book is recommended for ages 8 to 12.
AnthonyHOST
Next is This is a Door by Daniel Nayeri.
AnthonyHOST
Orphaned 12-year-old Nothing, or Ng for short, sets out to find his best purpose in this rousing mythic fantasy from National Book Award winner Nayeri.
AnthonyHOST
Though most people living in Ng's mountaintop city become their parents' apprentice, Ng's father left after the youth's mother died during childbirth, leaving Ng rudderless and alone.
Daniel NayeriGUEST
There's nobody there for us to actually be able to tell each other what we're doing here.
Stephen RoachHOST
Why are stories important to the human experience? And how does imagination, faith, and the search for identity shape the creative life? And what if the deepest calling of an artist is not simply to express themselves, but to offer something beautiful and meaningful that serves others? Today, I'm joined by acclaimed author Daniel Nayeri to explore storytelling as a way of making meaning, the relationship between imagination and faith, and the transformative power of beauty.
Stephen RoachHOST
We discuss his new novel, This is a Door, and why the creative life is as much about serving others as it is about discovering who we are.
Stephen RoachHOST
If you're a patron of the podcast, you can enjoy additional interview segments with Daniel on his favorite Persian poets, as well as the making of an identity.
Brittany PearsonHOST
You have to eat what's served.
Brittany PearsonHOST
A total aside, I might have already said this on the podcast, but I recently read the book Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri, and he is an Iranian refugee.
Brittany PearsonHOST
And he was talking about how he was appalled at how kids in America would just not eat something or like rudely eat.
Brittany PearsonHOST
turn it away when he he mentioned I can't remember what it was but there was something so vile he had to eat it was like the brains of some animal or something because he was served it and he knew when he was young he was like under 11 when he had done this he might have been eight or so And it was like, I knew I had to eat this because that's what we do.