ALL WRITERS HAVE THEIR PROCESS. SOME are planners; some set off without necessarily knowing where they’re going. George Saunders belongs in the latter category, but in a very particular way. He likens his approach to “procedural pointillism”, after a post-Impressionist painting technique in which images are made up from small dots of paint.
Saunders edits and re-edits his prose. “What I’ll do is take a given story and then go crazy on one section of it, try to perfect it,” he explains. “Then, if I do that, it’ll start telling me
