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 his most recent novel, Vigil, George Saunders grapples with these questions of climate denial and accountability through the story of K.J. Boone, a dying Big Oil executive who is visited in his ...

George Saunders is no stranger to unusual subject matter. From horror-themed amusement parks to morose 19th-century spirits, the 67-year-old Saunders has always managed to make the impossible seem ...

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Author George Saunders thinks a lot about death and the afterlife. It was the focus of his 2017 novel "Lincoln In The Bardo." He vividly remembers the first time the topic entered his mind. He was ...

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 ...

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, ...

If Heaven, according to Talking Heads, is the place where nothing ever happens, the Bardo, according to George Saunders, is as jam-packed and frantic as Costco on Black Friday. We Saunders fans have ...

On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a ...

Writer George Saunders has authored several collections of short stories and the Booker Prize-winning novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo.” His latest novel is called “Vigil.” An oil and gas tycoon sits on ...

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