George Saunders
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh, thanks for having me.
It's great.
You remember this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's so funny.
It said—
Something like, this is from my best friend, and please assure him that he's still a good man even though his wife slept with his yoga instructor or something like that.
I do remember because that's actually the one –
But I think I wrote most of it out.
And then I kept going.
And I thought, yeah, I think I backed out.
Yeah.
But it's funny.
What's interesting about that is when I— No, no, it's totally fine.
Because when I look back at my, you know, so-called career, that was an anomaly.
I couldn't—I thought, that doesn't make sense to me.
I couldn't quite—so I'm glad to know that it was fake.
I can stop worrying about that husband whose wife, you know.
I think the book says, yeah, good question.
There's this Chekhov quote that I'm kind of living by lately, and he says, a work of art doesn't have to solve a problem.