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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”

Jun 12, 2023

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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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