His second, “Vigil,” out this month, came to him much more quickly.
In recent stories and his new novel, George Saunders’s writing has begun feel frustrated, spiritually and artistically.
In Saunders' 'Vigil,' a supernatural guide who comforts dying souls struggles with an unapologetic oil tycoon refusing to acknowledge his role in climate destruction.
Long out of print, his novel Nebraska is an enigmatic record of queer survival in midcentury America. George Whitmore, 1987. Somewhere in the ether between Chicago and California, Nebraska endures, a ...