Azoom Recordings - The Sound Engineer Producer

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i'm so happy to be doing this with you again. I just sent a book off, a book of stories that am really happy about to random house. You know, considering the general should stor ip i feel, i mean, for me, the whole thing through ias, been trying to keep a positive at to try to be productive. And ii feels like it's, you know, im still doing that generally. That's working for you. It was another another azoom recording set up, which is really not the ideal way to have these conversations. But still, this one was, thisOne was worth it.

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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