Said Sayrafiezadeh ( of The Best American Short Stories 2019)

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Said Sayrafiezadeh

Born

in Brooklyn, NY, The United States

December 26, 1968

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Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction

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James Baldwin
Howard Stern
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Sa茂d Sayrafiezadeh is a memoirist, fiction writer and playwright. He is the author of the forthcoming story collection American Estrangement. His memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, and his debut story collection, Brief Encounters With the Enemy, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fiction Prize.

His short stories and personal essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, Granta, McSweeney鈥檚, The New York Times, and New American Stories, among other publications. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers鈥� Award for nonfiction and a Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers鈥� fiction fellowship.

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	The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Nana Kwame Adjeii-Brenyah (Contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 1,604 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Matt Weiland (Editor)(Preface), Sean Wilsey (Editor)(Introduction), Edward P. Jones (Afterword)(Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood 3.70 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Estrangement: Stories 3.74 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom by Shelly Oria (Editor), Tommy Orange (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor), R.O. Kwon (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brief Encounters with the Enemy: Fiction 3.69 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 91: Wish You Were Here by Ian Jack (Editor), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila 3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For most of my childhood there was always something more we wanted, something more we were just about to get, something that was going to turn our situation around once and for all. It was vague and indefinable, this thing, hovering nearby in the air.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

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“So why do you thank them,' she asks, 'for what is yours by right?”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

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“But more pressing issues have usurped the lifelong primacy of good manners. Good manners, good graces, good looks have become things of the past. We鈥檝e arrived at that realm where the physical body has decreed an entirely new set of rules of acceptability.”
― Said Sayrafiezadeh, American Estrangement: Stories

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