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Interview Details
Title & Link
Interview with George Saunders - The White Review
Publish Date
June 1, 2016
Interviewees
George Saunders
Interviewers
Aidan Ryan
Publisher
The White Review
Topics
craft of writing
empathy in fiction
fictional ethics
kindness in storytelling
literary influences
naïveté in characters
satire vs. comic fiction
writing process
People Mentioned
Ben Marcus
Chekhov
David Foster Wallace
Dylan
Gerald Stern
Jennifer Egan
Jonathan Franzen
Martha Nussbaum
Mary Karr
Richard Posner
Sam Lipsyte
Stuart Dybek
Wayne Booth
Works Mentioned
Believer
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Tenth of December
The Vegetarian
Places Mentioned
Chicago
Syracuse University
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