NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan recently confessed to having had no idea who George Saunders was. That seems startling to me. Any occasional reader of the New Yorker magazine will have recognized the name. No?
The New York Times, Slate magazine and others have recently been gushing praise for his latest short story collection, The Tenth of December. Which, to me, is thrilling and scary. Thrilling that his style of short fiction is gaining attention. But scary that it almost seems like he's ripping me off... Okay. Or vice versa. But I'm hoping that those people who haven't already read The Brain Harvest might now be primed for it by having read some George Saunders.
The New York Times, Slate magazine and others have recently been gushing praise for his latest short story collection, The Tenth of December. Which, to me, is thrilling and scary. Thrilling that his style of short fiction is gaining attention. But scary that it almost seems like he's ripping me off... Okay. Or vice versa. But I'm hoping that those people who haven't already read The Brain Harvest might now be primed for it by having read some George Saunders.
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