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Arya Roshanian is a writer based in Brooklyn. His reportage, essays, and criticism appear or are forthcoming in the New York Times, The Baffler, BOMB, 4Columns, PAPER, Gawker, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He was previously a staff writer at Bustle and Variety. Arya holds an MFA from Columbia University, where he was a finalist for the Henfield Prize, and a BA from University of Southern California. He is currently a PhD candidate at Columbia.