A lightly spoiler-filled conversation with the author about his new novel, Vigil, climate change, and redemption.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now 67, George Saunders studied geophysics and worked as an engineer before changing lanes to become a writer in his 20s - Dan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Vigil" by George Saunders (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket from Random House) George Saunders has an affinity for ...

“What a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward, acquiring, as I fell, arms, hands, legs, feet, all of which, as usual, became more substantial with each passing second.” So begins “Vigil.” Just ...

Author George Saunders thinks a lot about death and the afterlife. It was the focus of his 2017 novel "Lincoln In The Bardo." He vividly remembers the first time the topic entered his mind. He was ...

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George Saunders, author of "Liberation Day," "Tenth of December" and the Booker Prize — winning novel "Lincoln in the Bardo," will visit Tulane from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 9 in the Kendall ...

IN THE FIRST PAGES of George Saunders’s new novel, Vigil, a woman falls through the sky, clothing gradually materializing onto her body. She plunges into the ground, stuck but immediately on a mission ...

The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 novel, Lincoln in the... George Saunders' 'Vigil' is a brief and bumpy ...

new video loaded: The Novelist George Saunders on the Comfort of Truth transcript George Saunders speaks on “The Ezra Klein Show” about our relationship to truth as not just the foundation of judgment ...

George Saunders has an affinity for ghosts. They dominate his 2017 Man Booker prize-winning "Lincoln in the Bardo" with its multi-voice narratives exploring grief and American history. Grief, dying, ...