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George Saunders author of 'Tenth of December'
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charliesheep 02/10/2013 12:39 PM Report
WHO'S;COMMISSION-OMISSION-'WE JUST STAND EM UP"; LIKE PINS, CAUSE WE LIKE EATIN!
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/31/2013 02:41 AM Report
Charlie, yet another important parent.
His Father left books at the breakfast table when he got up: "The Prince" by Nicolo Machiavelli, "The Other America" by Michael Harrington.
(I went to the library almost every week for my kids.)
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/31/2013 02:35 AM Report
The slaughter house got to him in a week and a half.
A moral charge from the job he worked.
Charlie tells us he has no separation between work and life.
Yes Charlie what a privilege but if you were working in that slaughter house . . .
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/31/2013 02:31 AM Report
Get the language to overload, he says. Is the paragraph being slothful? Is the phrase a place holder or cliché?
Jim wore a red sweater.
Jim wore a dirty red sweater.
Jim wore a dirty red sweater with a torn yellow pocket.
We have rhythm and Jim is coming into focus.
(Yes, I am writing now. Well I will be when it is a blue sweater, it is Maya and there is cleavage.)
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/30/2013 03:43 PM Report
He tells us he did a Kerouac thing after Asia and he worked in a slaughter house and as a doorman.
"Get the feeling of being on the receiving end of those sharp blades of capitalism. It wasn’t the gulag. Just a taste of that. It was interesting that capitalism is not that interested in your feelings."
That is profoundly true.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/30/2013 03:36 PM Report
Charlie, our little boy grew up:
"Saunders considered himself an Objectivist (Ayn Rand) in his twenties but is now repulsed by the philosophy, comparing it to neoconservative thinking.[7]"
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/30/2013 03:31 PM Report
Saunders has a B.S. in geophysical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
Vonnegut went for Chemistry and then Mechanical Engineering.
Pynchon went for engineering physics and then to war (and then to English).
So yes, "Project Runway" should have a segment where welders design dresses.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/30/2013 03:09 PM Report
Rinse, lather and repeat may not be the best way to write but it is funny.
In hair washing it gets rid of all the oils so in writing it may get rid of all the body.
Word black smithing, hammering, forging but do not make it brittle or work harden it so far that it falls apart under stress.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/30/2013 02:57 PM Report
He tells us how great his wife is as a helpmate to his writing.
Sounds like Albert Einstein and his first wife http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari%C4%87.
Yes, two heads are better so both Einstein and Saunders should make sure not to give us a soloist illusion.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 01/30/2013 02:46 PM Report
Hemingway's six-word story read: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Yes, George that is a great short story.
Charlie, I wrote this one for you buddy:
"Education today is for living tomorrow."
ShalomFreedman 01/30/2013 02:01 PM Report
George Saunders is being hailed as the next great voice in American literature. In this appearance on Charlie Rose he is articulate, intelligent, modest and insightful. My guess is then, though I have not read him, that there is much truth in the superlatives. But the real test is of course in the reading a test I look forward to making.