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George Saunders on Writing
- johndhi 4y agoI like Saunders but this is like the 20th time I've seen him interviewed about his process. I'm a little tired of it. Do recommend a swim in a pond in the rain though.
- panarky 4y agoJust finished A Swim in a Pond in the Rain and it was a mind-expander for me. Saunders teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. This book repurposes some of his teaching for a more general audience by analyzing seven classic Russian short stories, sometimes sentence by sentence. That may sound tedious and technical, but for me it was enlightening. There's so much going on beyond the story itself that it's thrilling to understand the other dimensions. The book is for fiction writers, which I'll never be, but I feel it's improved my skills as a reader, and as a thinker.
- dang 4y agoRelated: George Saunders on the art of the short story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33155945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33155945 - Oct 2022 (13 comments) Ways of Thinking about Endings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596997 - June 2022 (9 comments) George Saunders: what writers do when they write (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450033 - Dec 2021 (11 comments) How George Saunders Is Making Sense of the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858976 - July 2021 (9 comments) George Saunders on Story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25769590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25769590 - Jan 2021 (1 comment) George Saunders: what writers really do when they write - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13818706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13818706 - March 2017 (10 comments)