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As seen in: Story Club with George Saunders, Before and After the Book Deal, Jeffji’s Big World, Saratonin, Slate, Substack, Techno Sapiens, The Amateur Gourmet Newsletter, The Empress, The New Yorker, This Week, Those Books and
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Back to Work!

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By George Saunders
| Story Club with George Saunders
Back home now, very happily, and I’d like to try an experiment I’ve been thinking about for years but have never tried on an actual class. It’s simply this: even a great and beloved writer is going to show some range in the quality of his or her works. Might it be possible for us to learn something by looking at a work at the lower end of that range? Might an examination like this, of a “lesser” work, tell us something about what’s happening when that writer really hits the mark?
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"Wait, What Did You Just Say to Me?"

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By George Saunders
| Story Club with George Saunders
Office Hours A painful lesson from my youth... Hi everyone, First, two quick announcements, one sad, one happy. Sad: someone has created a fake Instagram account called @georgesaunders_author. It’s not me, I’m not on Instagram at all, and I will never contact you in any way except, rarely, from my Story Club email account. Happy: I had the honor of being asked to write an afterword to a new book of photos by George Harrison. It was announced by Random House a few days ago, here.
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What's Up With All the Theme Parks?

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By George Saunders
| Story Club with George Saunders
Office Hours Office Hours Writing this early Wednesday morning from Austin, where I had a fun event last night with Judy Maggio, Texas broadcasting legend - thank you, Judy. I’m on to Houston today, then Dallas on Thursday, San Diego on Friday - and home, tour done. Good morning, Austin. Thanks, so much, to all of you who’ve come out to these events - it’s all been so much fun and so inspiring. Judy closed last night with a beautiful question about what these events do for me.
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