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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Importance of Subliminal Advertising

"I'm canvassing for the election. The election is three days away," says a writer who was stopped by police in her car. "He wants to know what's in the Walmart bag in the back seat, and why do you have bricks from a vacant lot?" he asks. He probably assumes that I'm planning on breaking windows, political intimidation before the election, cleaning up the city, she tells him.

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