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Fiction Podcast: George Saunders Reads Grace Paley and Barry ... » Oct 1, 2014 ...On this month's fiction podcast, George Saunders reads two short stories from the New Yorker archive: “Love,” by Grace Paley, from 1979, and “The Wretched Seventies,” by Barry Hannah, from 1996. Both are short short stories—each occupied only a single page in the magazine. But although they “seem... Newyorker.com

Joshua Ferris Reads George Saunders | The New Yorker » Aug 10, 2009 ...Years ago, Joshua Ferris was working at a Barnes & Noble when he came across George Saunders's “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.” The aspiring writer bought the book and promptly put it aside. “I knew right away that [Saunders] was an original voice because I didn't want to read him,” Ferris says. Newyorker.com

George Saunders Lives Up To The Hype : NPR » Jan 15, 2013 ...At the beginning of January, the cover story of The New York Times Magazine declared: "George Saunders Has Written The Best Book You'll Read This Year. ... Tenth of December probably will turn out to be one of the best new books I read in 2013 because Saunders is, indeed, something special. Npr.org

Joshua Ferris reads George Saunders | The New Yorker » Joshua Ferris reads George Saunders's "Adams" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Newyorker.com

Hear Jamaica Kincaid's Classic Story "Girl" Read by Fellow New ... » Mar 7, 2013 ......new book, the New Yorker's Page-Turner blog caught up with one of her admirers, Haitian-American author and fellow New Yorker columnist Edwidge Danticat and asked her to read two of Kincaid's classic stories, “Girl” and “ Wingless,” published in the New Yorker in 1978 and '79, for their fiction podcast... Openculture.com

On The Character of the Therapist Heather White (Toronto Institute ... » Page 1 ...1 “Fiction Podcast: George Saunders Reads Grace Paley and Barry Hannah,” The. 2 The stories in question are: Grace Paley, “Love,” The New Yorker (October 8,. 1979), 37; Barry Hannah, “The Wretched Seventies,” The New Yorker (August 12,. 1996), 69. 3 “Fiction Podcast: George Saunders Reads.” ... Seachangejournal.ca

Best books of 2017 – part two | Books | The Guardian » Nov 26, 2017 ...From moving memoirs to far-reaching fiction, novelists, poets and critics pick their best reads of the year. ...Part one: George Saunders, Ali Smith and others share their favourites; Nominate ....I couldn't bring myself to read an entire collection and I regularly gave up on poems that dared to go over the page. Theguardian.com

'Tenth of December,' by George Saunders - The New York Times » Feb 1, 2013 ...George Saunders's stories offer a close look at life's dark aspects, but don't succumb to them. ...Random House. $26. Gregory Cowles is an editor at the Book Review. A version of this review appears in print on February 3, 2013, on Page BR11 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Rays of Hope. Nytimes.com

George Saunders reads Isaac Babel | The New Yorker » George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's short story "You Must Know Everything" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Newyorker.com

George Saunders: what writers really do when they write | Books ... » Mar 4, 2017 ...There are those moments when we sit before a blank page, but mostly we're adjusting that which is already there. The writer revises, the painter touches up, the director edits, the musician overdubs. I write, “Jane came into the room and sat down on the blue couch,” read that, wince, cross out “came into the... Theguardian.com