Writer George Saunders describes his brush with death and what it taught him....

Genius writer George Saunders, author of the new book of stories "Tenth of December", talked to the New York Times about his brush with death in an airplane near-crash and how it affected him:

"For three or four days after that it was the most beautiful world. To have gotten back in it, you know? And I thought, If you could walk around like that all the time, to really have that awareness that it's actually going to end. That's the trick."

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