Reading speed

RB: I do wonder why there is this limiting thing about reading your stories - maybe it's that the density of a story is as if it were a novel. And I only have so much head space available -

GS: When I am imagining it, I will have a longer description and my feeling is that I'd have the physicality in my mind, then it will kind of unpack for the reader - but only at a certain pace of reading. If it's too fast, my experience is that the physicality doesn't have time to unpack, but if you take a story - the story, if you read it slow enough, then you are supplying physicality to it.

Interview with George Saunders at identity theory, June 2006.