Is There Life in the Faith of Thrilling Boredom?

George Saunders: It's not the quality of a life that matters, it's how much attention is paid to it. He says he had an older version of himself who asked him why he wanted to be a writer. "I think I would say that to career purgatory, the path that lives between you and that book you dreamed of is actually not a different day to day life"