The Less Time You Have, the More You Can Do

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Shan ramis, host of boxes daily news podcast, to day explain. Noel king, host of m p r's morning edition, to day explained. They're working on a story about a part of atlanta that is fed up with high crime raids and wants to divorce from greater atlanta. Episode one thousand of to day explained will be dropping on february sixteenth. Find us wherever you listenthis last thing you wrote about revision for the substact,. which is that idea, some of these ideas are in the book as well.

George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.

”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little negative minded in a lot of ways too, like I really think things tend to be fucked up. ... To get that on the page—to sufficiently praise the loveliness of the world without being a sap, and also lacerate the world for being so goddamn mean—to do those in the same story would be a great aspiration. And I haven’t gotten there yet.”

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