Longport is a weekly podcast hosted by max linsky and edvan radliffe. This week's guest is george saunders, who has been on the show before eight years ago now. He just released a book about short stories called "swim in a pond in the rain" The co-hosts hope to hear from him as soon as possible.
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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