There may be no more moral writer working right now than George Saunders – and no writer who makes you want to try harder to be a better human. In his latest book, “Liberation Day” (Random H ...

George Saunders’ first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” is remarkable; let’s get that out of the way first. Unfolding over one night in a graveyard not far from the White House, it tells a ...

It's a daunting task to be George Saunders' next book, to live up to the greatness that came before. But "Liberation Day" stands up to its predecessors. It is a short story collection that ...

Hence, that deliberately provocative headline of The Times Magazine article, which succeeded in its goal of making me want to read Saunders' new collection of short stories, Tenth of December.

The buzz: A starred review from Kirkus Reviews calls it "a tour de force collection that showcases all of Saunders’ many skills." What it's about: In the mountains of southern Appalachia ...

A New George Saunders Story in The New Yorker Is Cause for CelebrationLooking for something to read? George Saunders, hilarious/wonderful short story writer and personal hero of mine, has a new ...

I shouted, “Look! The Brazen Head!” George Saunders, the best short story writer in America, sat in the passenger seat. “Whoa!” he said, craning his head around as I passed what appeared ...

The world can catch up with what they’ve always been doing, and something like that is happening with George Saunders. In 2013, when he published his last story collection, “Tenth of December ...

George Saunders’ “Escape From Spiderhead” is the stuff of nightmares, or at least of mine: torture, mind control, lifelong regret. Published in the New Yorker in 2010 and collected in ...

Many notables deliver graduation speeches this spring. We have a speech to college students to tell you about, By George (Saunders), the short-story writer. Here's Mo Rocca: He might be the most ...

That obscuring fog gathers around the contemporary masters, too. Take George Saunders. In recent years, the writer has become regarded as a secular saint of American literature, with his Buddhist ...