For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted. George Saunders The… — C. Robert Cales Copy Share Image
Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't.… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
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