George Saunders
George Saunders won the 2017 Booker Prize for “ Lincoln in the Bardo.” His other books include “ Liberation Day: Stories ” (2022).
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SHOUTS & MURMURS about a fictional memo regarding the Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy “Borat.” The writer suggests various ways to …
fiction ·
Short story about a man who lives with his parents (who are ghosts) and works on a governmental base; he ends up murdered after helping to cover up the …
fiction ·
Short story about a series of confrontations between a man and his neighbor, Adams… One day, he’s standing in my kitchen in his underwear. Facing in …
personal history ·
George Saunders on the Christmas when he was twenty-six, living in his home town, working in roofing and witnessed a man being cheated out of Christmas.
shouts & murmurs ·
SHOUTS & MURMURS about 'advances ' in the new 'academic discipline' of "Patriot Studies." The Patriotic Studies discipline concerns the …
fiction ·
Short story set in a futuristic, commercial-saturated world about a grandfather taking his grandson to see a musical.
fiction ·
Neil Yaniky is attending a seminar at the Hyatt put on by self-help guru Tom Rodgers. Everyone wears different-colored hats designating their levels. On a …
fiction ·
Fiction, from 1996: “Being overly certain, he was relatively sure, was what eventually made one a wacko.”
fiction ·
A short story by George Saunders, from 1992.