IN THE FIRST PAGES of George Saunders’s new novel, Vigil, a woman falls through the sky, clothing gradually materializing onto her body. She plunges into the ground, stuck but immediately on a mission ...
The shades are gathering again for George Saunders. In 2017, when the celebrated short-story writer published his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” ghosts and grievers swarmed the Oak Hill Cemetery ...
IN THE FIRST PAGES of George Saunders’s new novel, Vigil, a woman falls through the sky, clothing gradually materializing onto her body. She plunges into the ground, stuck but immediately on a mission ...
Jill “Doll” Blaine is hurtling toward a mansion in Dallas to appear, as much as she can appear, at the deathbed of her latest charge: an 87-year-old oil CEO named K.J. Boone. Jill’s role is to provide ...
“Have exported this grief. Some three thousand times,” Abraham Lincoln thinks in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, contemplating the death of his young son as the Civil War rages in the ...
Ann Patchett rallied behind fellow author George Saunders after his new book, Vigil, received a scathing review. Patchett, 62, addressed the criticism in the Tuesday, February 17, edition of her ...
new video loaded: The Novelist George Saunders on the Comfort of Truth transcript George Saunders speaks on “The Ezra Klein Show” about our relationship to truth as not just the foundation of judgment ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Vigil" by George Saunders (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket from Random House) George Saunders has an affinity for ...
Her new “charge” is K. J. Boone, an oil executive with only hours to go. Jill sets about her task for the 343rd time, only to find it unusually complicated, first by the resistance of Boone himself, ...
George Saunders insists, despite appearances to the contrary, that he’s not obsessed with death. “I’m not walking around in my preordered shroud or anything,” he tells me over Zoom. But thinking about ...
To say that I like George Saunders’ writing is a significant understatement. His work is important to me, and has been for nearly 30 years. Reading his first collection of stories, “CivilWarLand in ...