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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis cover image

Other People’s Money: George Saunders on the Value of Failure

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

CHAPTER

The Importance of Voice

I have this wrap of being good at explaining complicated things. That's supposedly what I do. And it's so different from what I think I do that I think I explain only what I need to explain to make the story work and to satisfy certain demands that the character has made, the characters have made on me. So when someone says you explain complicated things, well, you're thinking, well, no,What I actually did was I mean, I explained the minimum I needed to set up the structure of the story and to make,. make the story move ahead. The efficiency is another part of voice that's really important. Is the voice serving the needs of the story or is it

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