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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
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What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2021
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
Notable NYC: 7/8–7/14
Sunday 7/9: Rachel Lyon, Gordon Harber, Chanice Hughes-Greenberg, and host Madeline Stevens join Sundays at Erv’s. Erv’s, 6 p.m., free. Monday 7/10: Jami Attenberg, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Courtney Maum, Elizabeth Crane,…
The Rumpus Interview with Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Memoirist, playwright, and short story writer Saïd Sayrafiezadeh discusses his choice to link stories together using an unnamed war, writing without a game plan, and the stasis in his own life that ultimately took shape in the lives of his characters.
Notable New York, This Week 6/28 – 7/4
This week Keith Gessen and HFM present “Diary of a Very Bad Year,” Justin Taylor goes guerrilla at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, Ed Park, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben…
The Political is the Personal
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s new memoir about life in the Socialist Workers Party shows the effects of political idealism on a child’s upbringing