Story Club with George Saunders

Story Club with George Saunders

Essays on Craft and Writing

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George Saunders
Mar 19, 2023
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I want to start out this post today by saying how moved I was by your response to last week’s prompt.  In that post, I said we were a “brain-trust” and that idea was beautifully illustrated in your responses, which I’ve been reading all week, addictively, drawn back to them by their positivity and precision and detail.

I had a feeling some wonderful essays might come out of that prompt and wow, have they ever.

That might be a decent “assignment” for those of you so inclined: simply, consider what you wrote to be the seed of a longer essay.  Write it and write it and revise it and send it out. 

We might discuss here, in the Comments, where to send it to, exactly – what magazines and websites would be particularly open to essays on these ideas?

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