{"id":18479,"date":"2021-12-08T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/department-of-english\/?page_id=18479"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:41:18","slug":"visiting-writers-series-said-sayrafiezadeh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/department-of-english\/visiting-writers-series-said-sayrafiezadeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Visiting Writers Series with Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Visiting Writers Series with Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Virtual Session Held on November 9, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Visiting Writers Series with Said Sayrafiezadeh\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 375px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LLjV4shVnCs?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This session of the Visiting Writers Series features a reading and Q&amp;A with author Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, author of the story collection, <em>American Estrangement<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His memoir, <em>When Skateboards Will Be Free<\/em>, was selected as one of the 10 best books of the year by Dwight Garner of <em>The New York Times<\/em>, and his story collection, <em>Brief Encounters With the Enemy<\/em>, was a finalist for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Fiction Prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His writing has appeared in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, <em>The Best American Short Stories<\/em>, <em>Granta<\/em>, <em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, and <em>New American Stories<\/em>, among other publications. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers\u2019 Award for nonfiction and a Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers\u2019 fiction fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Session Held on November 9, 2021 This session of the Visiting Writers Series features a reading and Q&amp;A with author Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, author of the story collection, American Estrangement. 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