Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

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Recorded01 Apr 2023

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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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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