![]() ![]() ![]() They were stern and minimal and tragic and had nothing to do whatsoever with the life I was living or, for that matter, any life I had ever lived. I had graduated from the Syracuse MFA program in 1988 and had been writing stories that owed everything to Ernest Hemingway and suffered for that. This book was written in the Rochester, New York, offices of Radian Corporation between 19, at a computer strategically located to maximize the number of steps a curious person (a boss, for example) would have to take to see that what was on the screen was not a technical report about groundwater contamination but a short story. By special arrangement with the publisher, we bring you the preface in full. Lovell quotes generously from Saunders’s preface to the new edition of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. ![]() We loved Joel Lovell’s profile of George Saunders in yesterday’s Times Magazine. ![]()
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