Said Sayrafiezadeh Reads Thomas Beller

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Recorded19 Nov 2011

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Said Sayrafiezadeh reads Thomas Beller's "A Different Kind of Imperfection," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "A Different Kind of Imperfection" was published in the February 11, 1991, issue of The New Yorker and can be found in "Seduction Theory." Said Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the memoir "When Skateboards Will Be Free." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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