"Failures of Kindness" by George Saunders speech transcript

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"Failures of Kindness" by George Saunders speech transcript “Failures of Kindness” delivered by George Saunders Background George Saunders is an American writer and winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Saunders delivered this speech about “failures of kindness” as the commencement address to Syracuse University's class of 2013. 1 Note: Thanks to reader Harvey Freedenberg, who originally told me about this speech. Speech Transcript Down through the ages, a traditional form has evolved for this type of speech, which is: Some old f

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