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On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest is literary fiction writer George Saunders, recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant and the Man Booker Prize.  He has a fun conversation with host Peter Sagal about the odd jobs he did before getting into writing, including working in a slaughterhouse to get enough money to get to Chicago and later as a roofer in Chicago after arriving.  And a funny tale about his first novel, a 700-page effort that was so terrible he saw his wife in agony by page six.