George Saunders

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The Braindead Megaphone (Riverhead)
This conversation provides a mini-course in short-story writing, Saunders-style. Using the suggestions found in The Braindead Megaphone, a book of essays, we explore the construction of short fiction from the ground up. Given this writer's shoot-from-the-hip stance, the instruction is funny as well as practical.

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• George Saunders: Short-story writer and journalist

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Michael Silverblatt

Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything they’ve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadn’t realized.

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