#george saunders

[minasdigitaljournal]

Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous and unafraid version of you — and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing does.

George Saunders

[quotespile]

History, when it arrives, may not look as you expect, based on the reading of history books. Things in there are always so clear. One knows exactly what one would have done.

George Saunders, Liberation Day

[dk-thrive]

But for the most part, just looking at my own heart, when I’ve been in sync with truth, I felt better. When I was not in sync with truth, I felt poorly.

— George Saunders, from "George Saunders is No Saint (Despite What You May Have Heard)" by David Marchese (NY Times, January 10, 2026)

[askyea-poesy]

Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you —and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing does.

George Saunders

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[oldshrewsburyian]

The Two-Sentence Outline that Defines the Form: An Interview with George Saunders  - The Rumpus

“Usually, I try to make things as brief as I can (my model is one of those wind-up toys and I wind it up and drop it on the floor and it rac

This is an absolutely delightful interview (about writing and also, perhaps unsurprisingly, about the human condition and the current state of the world.)

[iwtv]

people who love severance and want more of This Shit (esp once the season finale comes up) you should read some of george saunders’ stories. when watching severance i kept going “omg this is sooo saundersian” and bothering my partner so here’s my pitch: I recommend the entire collections liberation day and tenth of december but two stories i’ve accessed thru wayback machine to avoid paywall that i think would tickle that urge are:

ghoul — what if you worked in a hell-themed theme park but get this you can’t leave and get this too nobody knows how

escape from spiderhead — a convict agrees to be put through scientific tests and administered drugs in lieu of other forms of incarceration (they made a movie out of this, it was not good.)

saunders is great with speculative short fiction that falls in line w what the writers of severance are doing so i neeeeed ppl to hop on his stories!!