Story Club with George Saunders

Story Club with George Saunders

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Cat in the Rain
An Incident
The Stone Boy
My First Goose
Essays on Craft and Writing
I Stand Here Ironing
Office Hours
The Doll's House
The Gilded Six-Bits
In the Basement
Anyone Can Do It
Flowering Judas
The Lady with the Dog
CommComm
Twenty Minutes
Her Father's House
An Honest Thief
The Overcoat
August
The Devil
The Jilting of Granny Weather…
Boule de Suif
The Child
The Rockpile
Guy de Mauppasant
Enemies
Clay
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
A Christmas Carol
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Whistle
The Dwarf Pine
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"The Whistle"
Our first story by Eudora Welty
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Office Hours
Head vs. Heart
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Talking about The New Yorker...
...with Deborah Treisman.
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"The Dwarf Pine"
by Varlam Shalamov
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A New and Very Short Story
by Varlam Shalamov
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A Voice in the Night
Roll over or get cracking?
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134

April 2025

Surprise, Surprise
Thoughts on a basic storytelling move.
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Dropping In
An exercise
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Putting a Collection Together
Office Hours
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"He"
By Katherine Anne Porter
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"He"
First discussion.
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Patience, Patience
How to Know When to Bail
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