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First Draft - Best of 2021 George Saunders

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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How Did the Russian Authors Influence Your Writing?

L reston is a great adventure story that also manages to be deeply, weirdly philosophical. I would say there's a certain impatience in the causa of al rouston. And i think too, for me, there's a little mental sort of swerve i do in relation to the russians. Every story is going to be a moral, ethical document which means you're always trying to deepen his dilem so it's not just poking fawntad him. But then push push, push and see, are we all kind of aversion of anything he could do to redeem himself? It's almost like you're trying to make sure that the story is as deep as

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