George Saunders has released a new book of short stories titled Tenth of December. The short story of the same title has been published previously. Last week, the New York Times Magazine profiled Saunders, and this week, the Paris Review published Saunders' full preface to his first collection of stories. Saunders previously.
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates on Jan 8, 2013 - 27 comments

Writing advice from George Saunders. [via]
posted by AceRock on Apr 28, 2011 - 30 comments

BAD WRITING - the movie [more inside]
posted by philip-random on Dec 14, 2010 - 17 comments

The Iraq problem solved. George Saunders has got it all figured out. (from the New Yorker natch.)
posted by lilboo on Nov 30, 2004 - 34 comments

Back in the time of which I am speaking, due to our Coordinators had mandated us, we had all seen that educational video of "It's Yours to Do With What You Like!" in which teens like ourselfs speak on the healthy benefits of getting off by oneself and doing what one feels like in terms of self-touching, which what we learned from that video was, there is nothing wrong with self-touching, because love is a mystery but the mechanics of love need not be, so go off alone, see what is up, with you and your relation to your own gonads, and the main thing is, just have fun, feeling no shame!"
posted by semmi on Jan 22, 2003 - 21 comments

George Saunders imagines the future of advertising: "But Teddy of course did not see Gene Kelly, Gene Kelly not being one of his Preferences, but instead saw his hero Babar, swinging a small monkey on his trunk while saying that his data indicated that Teddy did not yet own a Nintendo." Hilarious Vonnegut-like short fiction.
posted by BT on Jan 25, 2002 - 9 comments