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Oct 12, 2022 · George Saunders is that rare contemporary author who is as original as he is beloved—even rarer for having made his name on that often overlooked form of fiction, the short story. His first ...
Jun 5, 2023 · Deborah Treisman interviews the author George Saunders about “Thursday,” his story from the June 12, 2023, issue of The New Yorker.
George Saunders. , The Art of Fiction No. 245. Photo by Chloe Aftel, courtesy of George Saunders. My first meeting with George Saunders took place in his home of ten years, a ranch house in the Catskills. The house stood on fifteen acres of hilly woods, crisscrossed by narrow paths that he and his wife, the novelist Paula Saunders, had cleared ...
Jan 12, 2021 · "The part of the mind that reads a story is also the part that reads the world," George Saunders writes in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.It's perhaps the truest distillation of Saunders' visionary ...
Jun 5, 2023 · Thursday. By George Saunders. June 5, 2023. Illustration by Marcin Wolski. Listen to this story. On the bright side, it was Thursday. “Gerard, yes, hi, hello,” said Mrs. Dwyer, the nurse’s ...
Apr 9, 2023 · This openness to more — to truth beyond story, to beauty beyond certainty — is precisely what teaches us how to love the world more. With a deep bow to Chekhov as the master of this existential art, Saunders writes: This feeling of fondness for the world takes the form, in his stories, of a constant state of reexamination.
Jan 1, 2017 · In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February ...
