George Saunders

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

George Saunders (A Swim in a Pond in the Rain) is a #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author. George joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the mental phenomena of life, farting in an elevator, and romanticizing everything as a writer. George explains how he learned that being a writer wasn't about your adventure resume, how to trust your own mind and bless your reactions, and how he finds inspiration by revisiting great works. George discusses how underestimated the role of encouragement is, that self-remonstration is the enemy of art, and how writer's block is having artificially elevated expectations of yourself. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to arm chair expert, experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Minister Mouse.
0:08.8	Hi there. Hello Minister Mouse. We got to talk to a very cool author today.
0:13.0	Yeah, this person is maybe the best short fiction writer on planet Earth.
0:20.0	I mean, given the awards, you could definitely build a big argument for it.
0:23.8	Yeah and I had an expectation that he was going to be kind of
0:27.9	kermogony. Okay. And he was so lovely. I liked him so much. He's one of those people that when it ended I was like are we gonna
0:36.1	though become friends are we gonna hang out well George Saunders is a number
0:40.7	one New York Times best-selling Booker Prize winning author. His writing has appeared
0:45.7	in the New Yorker, Harpers, McSweeny's, and GQ. He has a new book out right now called A Swim and
0:52.4	A Pond in the Rain.
0:53.8	George Sanders guides the readers through seven classic Russian short stories.
0:57.5	He's been teaching for 20 years as a professor at the Syracuse University
1:01.8	graduate MFA creative writing program.
1:04.0	Really fascinating conversation.
1:05.3	I hope everyone will enjoy George Saunders.
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1:24.0	He's an option's bad.
1:29.0	He's an option's bad.
1:30.0	He's an I'm sure it's so great to meet you and I'm going to
1:38.0	So George it's so great to meet you and I want to start by just bonding a little bit.
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