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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit... →
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to... →
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm... →
There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I... →
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her... →
My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes... →
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in.... →
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge... →
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble... →
I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
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