Cressida Leyshon interviews the writer Saïd Sayrafiezadeh about his story “Minimum Payment Due,” which appears in the November 25, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.
Yes, that was definitely the starting point. It’s a compelling predicament to have a character embroiled in debt, with its automatic urgency and its built-in stakes, and there seems to be a universality to debt—or at least the fear of it. The question for the reader would immediately be whether or not the narrator will be able to dig himself out of the hole that he’s in. But I have also been wanting to write a story about indoctrination and groupthink, and what might cause a person to conform.
As the story closes, the narrator co-opts—or better, appropriates—Reggie’s life when he’s speaking to the young woman beside him in the audience. He doesn’t see his own life as being of much value, certainly not worthy of being talked about.
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