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How to Find Real Life in Stories with George Saunders

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Lincoln and the Bartow - The Wolf Parable

LZ: One of the things I think your work does really well is it engenders a sense of not knowing. It sets this whole thing up, you know, where we just don't know what is kind of coming up. In Lincoln and the Bartow, there's so many great things about that book. And yet all throughout, you show these people who remembered this very basic thing very differently. If we can't know whether the moon is even out or not, how do we leap to much deeper and stronger conclusions that are based on flimsier even evidence? LZ: There's a Zen Cohen, not knowing is most intimate. That's beautiful. You got to write

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