George Saunders - On Story

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  • Tenth of December: Stories

    • ASIN: 0812984250
    • ISBN: 0812984250
    • Brand: Random House Trade
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • The New York Times Magazine • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • New York • The Telegraph • BuzzFeed • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage • Shelf AwarenessIncludes an extended conversat... [Read More]

  • CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella

    • ASIN: 0812987683
    • ISBN: 0812987683
    • Brand: Random House Inc
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

  • Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0812985400
    • ISBN: 0812985400
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and inventedNamed One of t... [Read More]

  • On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

    • ASIN: 1587433966
    • ISBN: 1587433966
    • Brand: Baker Pub Group/Baker Books
    • Manufacturer: Brazos Press

    ★ Publishers Weekly starred reviewA Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers WeeklyReading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates vi... [Read More]

  • The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction

    • ASIN: 1936787636
    • ISBN: 1936787636
    • Manufacturer: Catapult

    "You don’t often get collections, or even anthologies where every story knocks you out, but I’ve been bewildered in the best way over each one [in The Story Prize] so far." ―Lillian Li, author of Number One Chinese Restaurant This anthology of short stories marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Story Prize and includes one story from each of... [Read More]

  • Friday Black

    • ASIN: 1328911241
    • ISBN: 1328911241
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice.” —Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review“An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny.” —George Saunders“Dark and captivating and essential . . . A call to arms and a condemnation . . . Read this book.” ... [Read More]

  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

    • ASIN: 148142436X
    • ISBN: 148142436X
    • Brand: Gallery / Saga Press
    • Manufacturer: Gallery / Saga Press

    Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menage... [Read More]

  • Fox 8: A Story (Kindle Single)

    • ASIN: B00BVJG512
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal. Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a... [Read More]

  • Pastoralia

    • ASIN: 1573228729
    • ISBN: 1573228729
    • Brand: Brand: Riverhead Trade
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us,... [Read More]

  • In Persuasion Nation

    • ASIN: 159448242X
    • ISBN: 159448242X
    • Brand: Saunders, George
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables—all in this hilarious and heartbre... [Read More]

  • A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

    • ASIN: B01IA6FNYI
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and brilliant economy of words."A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, “comes along and brightens language up again, takes it aside and gives it a ... [Read More]

  • Heads of the Colored People: Stories

    • ASIN: 1501167995
    • ISBN: 1501167995
    • Manufacturer: 37 Ink

    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and Kirkus Prize Finalist Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples w... [Read More]

  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

    • ASIN: 1594481520
    • ISBN: 1594481520
    • Brand: Saunders, George
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

  • The Braindead Megaphone

    • ASIN: 159448256X
    • ISBN: 159448256X
    • Brand: Saunders, George
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official "Genius"--his first nonfiction collection ever. George Saunder... [Read More]

  • Children of the New World: Stories

    • ASIN: 1250098998
    • ISBN: 1250098998
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    Selected by Electric Literature as one of the best short story collections of 2016AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEINChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously ... [Read More]

  • The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

    • ASIN: B000XU8DW4
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

    • ASIN: 0812989635
    • ISBN: 0812989635
    • Brand: Random House Inc
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Patchwork: A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader

    • ASIN: 0813175453
    • ISBN: 0813175453
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky

    Bobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a "literary phenomenon." Anne Tyler hailed Mason as "a full-fledged master of the short story." Mason's work, charged with a spirit of exploration, garnered both popular and critical acclaim.This reader collects outstanding examp... [Read More]

  • The Heaven of Animals: Stories

    • ASIN: 1476729972
    • ISBN: 1476729972
    • Brand: Simon Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Named one of Amazon’s Best Short Story Collections of 2014 One of Atlanta Journal Constitution’s 9 Best Books of 2014 Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's Magazine Winner of GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction 2014 LA Times Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Florida Book Awards Silver Medal for Fiction Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. ... [Read More]

  • At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories

    • ASIN: B008UHXGNS

    The wrenching and provocative debut collection from the author of The Fox Woman and Fudoki. Johnson’s stories have won the Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards and, for the last three years running, the Nebula Award.Johnson’s stories range from historical Japan (Sturgeon award winner “Fox Magic”) to metafictional explorations of story structur... [Read More]

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    Writer George Saunders Reflects on Engineering Short Fiction

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