George Saunders
George Saunders is the author of eleven books, including Tenth of December, Lincoln in the Bardo and A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 108
The View from the South Side, 1970
George Saunders
‘On a clear night you could see Chicago.’
In Conversation | Issue 108
George Saunders | Podcast
George Saunders & Ted Hodgkinson
George Saunders talks about allowing his characters access to goodness, why he avoids ‘auto-dark’ in his stories, and the death of David Foster Wallace.