Chatting over the phone from a cab in London, George Saunders ... Introduced to Saunders by two of her OFHS predecessors, Sherry and Joe Lindbloom, Schanz has come to know the author both for ...

George Saunders, author of “In Persuasion Nation,” spoke on Feb. 23 ... his refusal to read any literature published past approximately his year of birth. As a young man, he read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas ...

George Saunders is that rare contemporary author who is as original as he is ... somebody told you one when you were young, and it got under your skin in a way that was disproportionate.

In his new collection of short stories, “Liberation Day,” 2017 Booker Prize winner George ... Saunders’s character-first world building never feels artificial. And while there are certainly political ...

Texas-born author George Saunders, known for his short story collections ... a narrative choice that made for a book that the chair of judges Lola Young said in a statement was “utterly original.” ...

Celebrated short story writer George Saunders was born in Amarillo ... Like, you’re my favorite living author in part because all the other authors I like have killed themselves.

The real-life death of Abraham Lincoln’s young son is reimagined as a meditation on grief and moving on in the novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” Author George Saunders joins us. Author and ...

The idea of doing a straightforward sequel featuring the famously doomed US cavalry commander General George ... was also Saunders’ nickname. In the late Eighties, the author was studying ...

George Saunders’ “Escape ... is harsher than the utilitarian logic of Saunders’ Abnesti and company. Yet rather than abide in the author’s eerily pedestrian near-reality, the film ...

Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode with George Saunders ... “When I was young, I admired clever people.