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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Ill Seen Ill Said,” by Samuel Beckett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1981. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of a memoir and two story collections, the most recent of which, “American Estrangement,” was published in 2021.

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  Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer

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  Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri

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  Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell

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  David Sedaris Reads George Saunders

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  Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian

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  André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

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  Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras

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  David Bezmozgis Reads Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

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  Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan

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  Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads Roberto Bolaño

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  Rivka Galchen Reads Aleksandar Hemon

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  Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson

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  Margaret Atwood Reads Mavis Gallant, Live

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  Lucinda Rosenfeld Reads Annie Ernaux

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  Andrew O’Hagan Reads Donald Antrim

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  David Means Reads Lorrie Moore