But the speaker that night was George Saunders. Saunders is a writer who has always written about the untenable surreality of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now 67, George Saunders studied geophysics and worked as an engineer before changing lanes to become a writer in his 20s - Dan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Vigil" by George Saunders (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket from Random House) George Saunders has an affinity for ...

“What a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward, acquiring, as I fell, arms, hands, legs, feet, all of which, as usual, became more substantial with each passing second.” So begins “Vigil.” Just ...

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In his most recent novel, Vigil, George Saunders grapples with these questions of climate denial and accountability through the story of K.J. Boone, a dying Big Oil executive who is visited in his ...

Author George Saunders thinks a lot about death and the afterlife. It was the focus of his 2017 novel "Lincoln In The Bardo." He vividly remembers the first time the topic entered his mind. He was ...

George Saunders, author of "Liberation Day," "Tenth of December" and the Booker Prize — winning novel "Lincoln in the Bardo," will visit Tulane from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 9 in the Kendall ...

new video loaded: The Novelist George Saunders on the Comfort of Truth transcript George Saunders speaks on “The Ezra Klein Show” about our relationship to truth as not just the foundation of judgment ...

Her new “charge” is K. J. Boone, an oil executive with only hours to go. Jill sets about her task for the 343rd time, only to find it unusually complicated, first by the resistance of Boone himself, ...

George Saunders has an affinity for ghosts. They dominate his 2017 Man Booker prize-winning "Lincoln in the Bardo" with its multi-voice narratives exploring grief and American history. Grief, dying, ...