First Draft - George Saunders (Returns Again)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Backlog of a Book
way I think when you write stories like these it justifies your entire life because what you were talking about is this backlog. All these things that you store away like whether it was a factoid when you were working as an engineer and Rochester or your trip to try to drink what Ken Keesy drank or whatever all kind of converges and comes out in the book. It does in some way justify like everything you've done it's like oh I can't that's all a tax write off my whole life experience it's just a tax write-off for this product, he says.
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