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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collection “ American Estrangement .” He has contributed to The New Yorker since 2010.

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2 picks · 2010–2025

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“Nocturnal Creatures”
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Fiction by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, the author of “When Skateboards Will Be Free” and “American Estrangement”: This is the way infestations work: first gradually and then all at once. He will never be able to eradicate. He can only hope to contain.

Appetite
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Cook and anorexic waitress