First Draft - Best of 2021 George Saunders

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

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The Time for Art Is Now

01:47 • 3min

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First Draft Writers Podcast - George Saunders

04:51 • 3min

4

How to Read a Book

08:08 • 2min

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What Happened When You Created This Book?

10:20 • 5min

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Is There Something Going on in Russia?

15:39 • 3min

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How Important Is It for the Reader to Know the Circumstances of the Author?

18:22 • 4min

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Is Perfect the Enemy of Good?

22:38 • 3min

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Is There a Paradox in Fiction?

25:36 • 2min

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How a Story Reacts to Impossibility

27:50 • 4min

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You Know, You're Not in Control, You Know?

31:29 • 3min

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How to Write a Short Story Without a Samovar

34:37 • 2min

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Young Writers - Is There a Superpower in It?

37:01 • 4min

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How Do You Write Line by Line?

40:33 • 3min

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The Push and Pull Between Intuition, Structure and Meaning

43:16 • 2min

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What I Love About Fiction Is the Increasing Change

44:50 • 4min

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Is There a Test of a Good Story?

48:58 • 2min

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How Did the Russian Authors Influence Your Writing?

51:15 • 4min

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Writing Advice - Is There Any Advice That's Worth Anything?

55:41 • 2min

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A Novel That Influenced Me as a Writer

57:49 • 2min

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Can You Read Something You've Written?

01:00:17 • 3min

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Do You Want to Say Anything?

01:03:19 • 2min

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How Do You Deal With Rejection?

01:05:00 • 2min

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First Draft, a Dialogue on Writing - A Voice Over Podcast

01:06:48 • 2min