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His second, “Vigil,” out this month, came to him much more quickly.

In Saunders' 'Vigil,' a supernatural guide who comforts dying souls struggles with an unapologetic oil tycoon refusing to acknowledge his role in climate destruction.

The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

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 ...

This doesn’t matter much to our narrator, Jill “Doll” Blaine, who has so far comforted 342 dying souls, each equally “a person who had not willed himself into this world and was now being taken out of ...

Vigil” opens with ultrawealthy oil executive K.J. Boone unconscious on his deathbed, where he is visited by Jill, an ...

In George Saunders’ second novel and thirteenth book, Vigil (Random House, 192 pages, $28), the Man Booker and National Book ...

George Frazier is an environmental writer and academic whose work traces the deep intersections of nature, history, and place ...

In the late 1970s, a series of murders rocked the small southeast Iowa town of Mount Pleasant. Fort Madison, West Point, Keokuk and Burlington are all bit players in the larger drama of a true crime ...