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This is my favorite book on writing. You’d think that, in analyzing a few short stories, Saunders would get technical and didactic. But he approaches these stories with a reverence for their mysteries, and doesn’t try to reduce them to technical accomplishments, instead trying to suggest the sort of mental headspace that is required to write one of them. Saunders is more interested in process, in what the kind is doing when it is writing, than in offering rules for writing. Ultimately, it is a loving and compassionate book that asks us to write at the very edge of our ability. There was some stuff about love at the end that really affected me. Lives up to its title. About reading, writing, and life in equal measure.