"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and then in the fi…

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Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starvin…

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That's another thing in Alice Munro: it's always, like, some middle-aged woman who is going to cheat on her husband, and there's that moment where sh…

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Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

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I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capita…

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Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized. And in turn, something will be given t…

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George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet guy. He's a big fan of my…

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Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the t…

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I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal. When you see th…

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