The New Yorker: Fiction

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

Episode Summary

<p><span>Saïd Sayrafiezadeh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Ill Seen Ill Said,” by Samuel Beckett, which was published in </span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 1981. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of a memoir and two story collections, the most recent of which, “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Estrangement-Stories-Sa%C3%AFd-Sayrafiezadeh/dp/0393541231" target="_blank">American Estrangement</a><span>,” was published in 2021.</span></p>

Episode Notes

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.