AUTHOR OF THE WEEK June 14
George Saunders
( Novellas, Short Stories, Essays, and Children’s Books)
“Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the centre of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.”
“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.”
“By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.”
“Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.”
George Saunders (Born 1958) is a New York Times best-selling American writer of short stories and eleven novels. He won the Man Booker prize in 2017 for Lincoln in the Bardo
Interview (Late Night with Seth Myers) with George Saunders, How Stories Enter Our Minds as Memories:
George Saunders is a conjurer, summoning worlds by stacking sentences and paragraphs, using agile and often brutally efficient language. An interview with Saunders at The Believer Magazine:
Reviews on Amazon:
“You want funny? Saunders is your man. You want emotional heft? Saunders again. You want stories that are actually about something—stories that again and again get to the meat of matters of life and death and justice and country? Saunders. There is no one better, no one more essential to our national sense of self and sanity.”—Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King
“The best short-story writer in English—not ‘one of,’ not ‘arguably,’ but the Best.”—Mary Karr, Time.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.”—The Wall Street Journal
Saunder’s Amazon Page:
https://www.amazon.com/George-Saunders/e/B000APEZ74
Note: You can read one of Saunder’s short stories Sticks right here at Reading Fiction Blog, featured in November 2018 (flash fiction 4-minute read):
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Paula Cappa 