#george saunders

[jojotier]

Read the titular short story in Saunders' liberation day collection and wow! its truly gratifying to know i will never read this author again

[jojotier]

my sensors are ringing. like. is it me or does vigil have a bit of an imperialist undertone

[jojotier]

Vigil by George Saunders reads like what a poorly read person's idea of an award winning literary novel is like. Like it's just trying too damn hard to do too much at once and at best it's just coming off as twee and decent at stringing together enough words to evoke a scene; at worst, meandering and just kinda bad

[minoracts]

'Capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.'

--George Saunders here

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

soli :: @solisolsoli :: The Surgery, 1979, by Dimitris Anastasiou

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“By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.” ― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

[kamreadsandrecs]

How George Saunders’s Analysis of Russian Masters Provides a Critical Language for Audio Narratives

In 2022, George Saunders published A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, a book that shared his technique and structure for critical reading and ana

[zippocreed501]

AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

"Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up."

"A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief."

"I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny."

"To me, the process of writing is just reading what I’ve written and—like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is—looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It’s an exercise in being open to whatever is there."

"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them."

Author Extraordinaire George Saunders

[off-the-beaten-timeline]

Relaxing poolside with Lincoln in the Bardo.

(Not exactly tonally a poolside read - it’s all ghosts and grief and graveyards - but I am loving it.)