George Saunders
Person on 3 sites
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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10 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Making art is a job you turn up to whether or not you feel inspired, and the work only arrives for people who are already at the desk. (opens korrents.com)
“Write something, in any old mood – feeling great about it or terrible, doesn’t matter.”
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What matters is not how the writer felt while writing it but how the reader will feel while reading it. (opens korrents.com)
“What matters is not how we felt on reading what you’re written, but how the reader is going to feel on reading it.”
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The recipe for great work is very exacting taste plus the ability to gratify it; it is easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. (opens korrents.com)
“Could this phrase or sentence or paragraph or section be improved, even a little? That is, can I make myself (on this very localized turf) make myself dislike it less?”
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Making art is a job you turn up to whether or not you feel inspired, and the work only arrives for people who are already at the desk. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Penguin Anthology of the International Short Story (opens rcmnd.app)
“Let’s start working on “The Good Denis,” by Marie NDiaye (translated from the French by Jordan Stump), which appears in the anthology we’ve been working from, The Penguin Anthology of the International Short Story,…”
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Apples (opens rcmnd.app)
“Today, we’re working on “Apples” by Gunnhild Øyehaug. There’s so much to say about this story. First observation: just now, after I re-read it, and before I started thinking about what it had done, or how, I just felt…”
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The Illumination of Santiago (opens rcmnd.app)
“This week we’re working on a lovely story called “The Illumination of Santiago” by the wonderful Chilean writer, Nona Fernández (translated from the original Spanish by Idra Novey.) It makes me happy every time I read…”
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The Penguin Anthology of the International Short Story (opens rcmnd.app)