George Saunders on Daniil Kharms
It’s a few days old now, but the New York Times review of Daniil Kharms’s Today I Wrote Nothing is worth checking out. Saunders does a good job of explaining how Kharms isn’t simply an “absurdist,” but an author who basically objected to the essential artifice of fiction: All of us who ...
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The New Yorker Podcasts
I must be a little slow on the pickup, but I just found out that The New Yorker has a podcast where authors read someone else’s work and have a brief conversation with the fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. In this one George Saunders reads Isaac Babel’s short story “You Must Know ...
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