Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Jordan talks to memoirist and fiction writer Sa\\xefd Sayrafiezadeh about growing up in the Socialist Workers Party, deprogramming from childhood, and how even in fiction, the memoirist doesn\'t fall far from the memoir.
Sa\\xefd Sayrafiezadeh is the author, most recently, of the story collection American Estrangement. His memoir,\\xa0When Skateboards Will Be Free, was called one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York Times and his story collection, Brief Encounters With the Enemy, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fiction Prize.\\xa0His writing has appeared in The New Yorker,\\xa0The Paris Review,\\xa0The Best American Short Stories, Granta,\\xa0McSweeney\\u2019s,\\xa0The New York Times,\\xa0and New\\xa0American Stories,\\xa0among other publications. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers\\u2019 Award\\xa0for nonfiction and a Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers\\u2019 fiction fellowship. Sa\\xefd lives in New York City with his wife, the artist Karen Mainenti, and serves on the board of directors for the\\xa0New York Foundation for the Arts. He is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and he leads the Creative Nonfiction track in Hunter\'s MFA program. He also teaches creative writing at Columbia University and New York University, where he received an Outstanding Teaching Award.
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