The Muslim Hipster
Reza Aslan
You’ll often find Aslan deep in concentration at the recently revamped Santa Monica Public Library, one of his favorite places to write. Often, he’ll ride his bike or walk to the library, which he calls his “office.” He’s currently at work on a historical novel set a thousand years ago; it’s about a caravan traveling from the Arabian peninsula to India. Aslan’s own journey, from Iran to America — first to Northern California as a child, with stops in Boston and Iowa on the way to L.A. — has opened his eyes to new ways of seeing the world. When he and his New Yorker fiancée first moved to Los Angeles, their initial apprehensions dissolved into “love at first sight”: “Everything you’re supposed to hate about L.A., I love,” Aslan says, “like the whole car culture and the Hollywood business world.” And now, after a successful honeymoon with the city, he and his fiancée decided they’re staying here for “the long haul.”
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