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The mysterious case of George Saunders and the missing email

Greg Bruce
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Senior multimedia journalist·Canvas·
9 mins to read

George Saunders wrote a book that changed my life. Why didn't he want to talk to me about it?

Last year, when we first entered lockdown and it felt like everything was doomed and therefore possible, I came up with the idea of hosting a fantasy dinner party over Zoom. I would invite the celebrities I most wanted to spend an hour with and we would talk about big issues in ways that were ceaselessly interesting, then I would write

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