Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”

The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Jun 12, 2023

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Civil Disturbance,” which appeared in the June 19, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy,” which was a finalist for the pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014, and “American Estrangement,” which was published in 2021.

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