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2 weeks ago | 
fivebooks.com | George Saunders |Lorrie Moore |David Sedaris |Katherine Heiny
Here at Five Books, we are often asked to recommend funny short story collections. This is a tall order. It’s unusually difficult to recommend comic writing—sense of humour being so specific to the individual—but here are five brilliantly original stories, from popular collections, all of which take a wry or surreal approach to their troubling subject matter. ‘Ghoul’ by George Saunders, in his collection Liberation Day: Stories George Saunders is a modern master of the short story.
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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Jennifer Boylan |Luis Alberto Urrea |George Saunders |Jodi Picoult
It’s a delight to provide this list of books and podcasts for Audible’s "5 Listens With..."! Not only does it give me a chance to celebrate some of the Audible content that I love, it also allows me to sing the praises of narrators in particular—a group of people whose talents should be celebrated. I’ve narrated my own audiobooks.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | George Saunders |C.S. Lewis |John Stonestreet |Maria R. Baer
The Supreme Court heard attorneys debate a Tennessee law that prohibits puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for children. Notre Dame is reopening after being heavily damaged by a fire in 2019. And the UK House of Commons votes to legalize doctor assisted suicide.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Jia Tolentino |George Saunders |Kelefa Sanneh |Lorrie Moore
The gender war, as pitched by politicians, revolves around two competing visions of a woman’s life. The Trumpists believe that the left wants women to be Plan B-gobbling dilettantes in their youth; dick-stomping corporate drones in early adulthood; lonely, angry spinsters who approach forty in a mania for egg-freezing or emasculation.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
service95.com | George Saunders |Charles DICKENS
The Reading List, Monthly Read, Book Club, Books | By George Saunders, author of Lincoln In The Bardo – Dua’s Monthly Read for October – shares a reading list of the books that influenced his experimental novel.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
service95.com | George Saunders
George Saunders at Oak Hill Cemetery. Photo by Laura Thoms Monthly Read, Book Club, Books | By George Saunders is the author of Lincoln In The Bardo – Dua’s Monthly Read for October – following Abraham Lincoln’s 11-year-old son, Willie Lincoln, as he transcends into the afterlife. In this essay, author George Saunders contemplates his relationship with the novel – a contemplation of grief, death and the history of the American Civil War – and the writing process brought the story together.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
service95.com | George Saunders
The Playlist, Monthly Read, Book Club, Books | By Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders – Dua’s Monthly Read for October – is set in 1862, one year into the American Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln loses his son to a severe illness. In this ghostly historical reimagining, Saunders takes this moment to contemplate grief and familial loss, as we follow Willie into the next life. Here, Saunders shares the music he listened to while writing this experimental book.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
georgesaunders.substack.com | George Saunders |George Saunders
Hi everyone,I thought we might use this session to get to know one another better. We’re pretty good around here at not using the Comments to tout projects we’ve got going on but how about, this once, we drop that reserve and go ahead and self-promote a little? Do you have a book, or story (published or not) or Substack and pending publication or record or website or….well, anything, you’d like the rest of us to know about? If so, just post the link in the Comment section.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | Maris Kreizman |George Saunders
"It's that equilibrium of groundbreaking craft and bone-deep compassion--plus his rangy, tilt-a-whirl voice--that raises Saunders above other masters of the form."--The Boston Globe "Part of the Saunders elixir is that we feel more empathetic after reading his work."--The San Francisco Chronicle"Liberation Day is great art ... winningly readable ...
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
loc.gov | George Saunders
2023 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner George Saunders discusses his writing life during this event, from his beloved novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” to his story collections such as “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day External.” Moderated by Clay Smith.
