The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
George Saunders: Everyone thinks that Einstein was so smart. Let's examine this. What was his big contribution?
Fitted Sweats (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
An old (2 years to be precise) interview I did with George Saunders finally surfaces at Vice. The power dynamic of offices is territory that seems very rich for you. Do you remember any specific, non-fiction instances of workplace cruelty at a job? Oh sure. I remember having to fill out evaluations on some very good friends who were going through difficult times personally, and then getting chewed...
Kevin Smokler (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Title: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella Author: Geroge Saunders Synopsis: Saunder's 1997 debut short story collection, (he's published five books since) containing 6 tales and a novella. All are terrifying, absurd and hilarious. Imagine George Orwell and...
Sporadic Sequential (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Over at the New Yorker , writer George Saunders has a humor piece titled " Antiheroes ," which pitches an anti- Heroes TV series where average people think they have superpowers but they really don't. Several of the proposed superpowers are pretty funny, and I think I spotted a reference to an obscure silver-age DC villain in there.
The Copydesk (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Jason Kottke recently linked to a New Yorker article by George Saunders in which he describes an idea for a TV show: everyone on earth thinks that they have superpowers but they really don't. The basic premise of Mark Millar's mini-series, Wanted , was a world of super-heroes that has been taken over by super-villains; only the super-heroes have been convinced by the villains that they're ordinary...
kottke (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
George Saunders has an idea for a TV show: everyone on earth thinks that they have superpowers but they really don't . ( link )
Condalmo (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
The New Yorker has its summer fiction 2008 issue lineup, with a story by Vladimir Nabokov (update: never before published in English, according to MN), and contributions by Annie Proulx, Haruki Murakami, Tobias Wolff, and George Saunders. The newest podcast (subscribe here) features VN's "Signs and Symbols." Love the cover.
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
I have now finished George Saunders’s collection of essays The Braindead Megaphone, and I’m sad there are no essays left to read. I wrote about the first half of the book here, where I concluded I liked the collection very much, and now having finished the book I can say I loved the collection absolutely. [...]
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
I’m going on a school retreat for most of the upcoming week, and so won't be around to post for a while … just so you know. I’m about halfway through George Saunders's book of essays The Braindead Megaphone and am enjoying it very much. When I picked it up I wasn't sure what to expect; [...]
Emerging Writers Network (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Hey folks, it's rare around here to hear from anybody but myself unless it's an interview. I think Jeff Parker's essay about George Saunders on Late Night with David Letterman just might be the only other occasion. But, the following...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Book Club: Robert Murphy explores the US satirical tradition that George Saunders taps for his thrilling short-story style.
The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Tayari Jones has organized an amazing Ebay fundraiser to benefit survivors of the Dunbar Village atrocity. You can bid on manuscript critiques by George Saunders and Laila Lalami (not together, obviously), a host of signed first editions and other cool...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
So many people have offered to help raise money for the mother and son who were attacked at Dunbar Village . Check out what we have collected, so far: George Saunders has donated a signed set of his book and a short story critique. Sarah Schulman, Nichelle Tramble, and Tayari Jones will give feedback on fiction manuscripts. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers will give feedback on 20 poems. Joy Castro will give...
Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Video from the 150th Anniversary celebration of Harper's Magazine. Introductory remarks by Robert Polito, John R. MacArthur, and Lewis H. Lapham. Remarks by Annie Dillard, Readings by David Foster Wallace, Mary Gaitskill, Darcy Frey, George Plimpton, Fenton Johnson, George Saunders, Allan Gurganus, Richard Rodriguez, Pico Iyer, Seymour Hersh, and Tom Wolfe. Above: George Saunders reads from "The 400-pound...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Alastair Sooke reviews Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman and The Brain-Dead Megaphone by George Saunders
