George Saunders
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But it's such a quiet, beautiful, meditative book.
It's got true, like what I would call rising action, but so subtle.
And it just made me think.
a lot about how much we miss with the speed of our lives and the technology.
And if this book works that way, you start reading it and it really announces that it's going to take its time.
And then slowly it's just built into this beautiful kind of crescendo at the end.
Thank you so much for having me.
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.