Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads "Audition"

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Sep 4, 2018

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his short story from the September 10, 2018, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collection "Brief Encounters with the Enemy," which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award for his memoir "When Skateboards Will Be Free."

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