Weeks ago, an essay by the writer George Saunders appeared on the New Yorker‘s Page-Turner: “My Writing Education: A Timeline.” Everyone I knew was reading it. Everyone I didn’t know seemed to be reading it. I waited. And waited. And now it’s my late-weekend reading.

A wish for my writing students: Make it your late-weekend reading, too.

Photo: George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1989.