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George Saunders
Personal blog · georgesaunders.substack.comwritingculture
George Saunders's personal blog at georgesaunders.substack.com covers writing and culture. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link George Saunders' Substack for craft advice on short fiction, including free answers to student questions and paid lessons on how short stories are built.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A place to explore the way the short story works.
What Hacker News says?
i recommend george saunder's substack: https://georgesaunders.substack.com/ with the free tier, he answers questions from students and that's valuable alone. with the paid tier, you get to learn the mechanics of a short story from one of america's best living short story writers.
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Learning?”Submitted Ways of Thinking about Endings as a story · 40 points
HN discussionlink to substack: https://georgesaunders.substack.com
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on “‘How to Tell a Story’ Review: Aristotle in the Writers’ Room”Submitted “The Falls”: A View from the Inside (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted "My First Goose" #1 (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Meandering, Retractable Manifesto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Influences as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Real Day of Class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radical Preference as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “A Cat in the Rain,” by Ernest Hemingway, Part One as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Thohts on Reviision as a story · 1 points
HN discussion