George Saunders

Join in the discussion about "Tenth of December," by George Saunders, this month...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:26:14 GMT

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Join in the discussion about "Tenth of December," by George Saunders, this month's selection for the Catholic Book Club. http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/discussing-tenth-december Discussing 'Tenth of December' | America Magazine americamagazine.org America is a national Catholic weekly magazine published by Jesuits in the United States. Founded in 1909, America has received dozens of awards for its coverage of religion, politics and the arts. ...

“The hype surrounding George Saunders’s Tenth of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:11:31 GMT

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“The hype surrounding George Saunders’s Tenth of December in the early days of the calendar year was kind of staggering. The backlash followed not long afterwards, when it was suggested that someone who can’t seem to accrue enough pages to pen the Great American Novel couldn’t actually be considered the writer of our time. This makes me cringe — maybe because I’m beginning to suspect that it’s true .” ...

Can a short story writer be the greatest writer of our time? On George Saunders...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:55 GMT

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Can a short story writer be the greatest writer of our time? On George Saunders and Tenth of December: Stories . The Millions : George Saunders and the Question of Greatness www.themillions.com I think it might mostly be the way George Saunders puzzles things aloud, but there was, I don’t know, just something about listening to him defend the short story on “The Colbert Report” shortly after Tenth of December came out a few months back, those endless variations on a theme. It’s a joke. It’... ...

George Saunders and the Question of Greatness

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:07 GMT

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I think it might mostly be the way George Saunders puzzles things aloud, but there was, I don’t know, just something about listening to him defend the short story on “The Colbert Report” shortly after Tenth of December came out a few months back, those endless variations on a theme. It’s a joke. It’s a pop song. It’s three minutes until the train leaves and you’ve got to convince her that you love her. It’s eight pages to make someone cry. It must have been a week or so before that, when my friends and I were huddled in the very back corner of Greenlight Bookstore here in the middle of Brooklyn, just a few feet from the stockroom, so many shelf-lined antechambers away from the man that we may as well have been in a different city, listening to him read a teasing bit of “Escape from Spiderhead” and answer questions over the PA system, and the first one was that old chestnut, where’s the novel we’ve all been waiting for? , and after he said that he lacked the momentum to “accrue pages” — “I think of my stories as kind of like those little toys and you wind ’em up and put it on the floor and it goes under the couch” — the guy beside me let out this soft, disappointed sigh, like he’d just learned exactly why his child had been sent to the principal’s office, or he was watching the scene in a movie where two lovers fated to die come this close to finding each other — but not quite. The hype surrounding Tenth of December in the early d ...