A Year in Reading: Mateo Askaripour

My name is Mateo Askaripour, and I am a reader. I guess it goes without saying that everyone here is, but it’s important that I get that off my chest. It all started when I was three, with Clifford. I couldn’t get enough of that big red dog. Then I moved on to Doctor De Soto, a mouse who was also a dentist. And before long, I was past Franklin and Frog and Toad and hooked on the hard stuff.

I guess that’s why this was such a strange year of reading for me. Because, in addition to being a reader, I’m a writer––a writer whose debut novel, came out this year. A year when book tours were restricted to dancing pixels and glitchy waves of sound. The pro of it all is that I was able to do more events, connect with more readers, and give more interviews than