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

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nondisclosure Agreement”

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

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The Importance of Comparative Literature in the Workplace

i wanted to salvage some of my 300 page grad school thesis, which i wasn't sure my professor had ever read. I began writing some of it down, spilling the beans on the fulfilment centere from the ground up. It took me half an hour to compose one paragraph, buttering him up with remembrances of how much he'd meant to me. By the time i'd finished 30 pages of a first draft, i reached out to my favorite professor, hoping for guidance or encouragement, ably both. What i really wanted was for him to offer to read it. A moment after i clicked send, an emal appeared in my inn box, subject line, auto reply

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