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‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ novel has people flocking to a Georgetown cemetery
There are a lot of dead people in Oak Hill Cemetery. Lately, there’s an increasing number of live people there, too. Nearly every day over the past month, one or two…
April 17, 2017
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George Saunders Gets Inside Lincoln’s Head
Seekers of Presidential frisson cherish the synchronous deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, on July 4, 1826, a temporal thrill doubled by the date’s being the fiftieth anniversary of the…
February 13, 2017
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The Beautiful World
George Saunders’ Tenth of December, his fourth short story collection, was published to much fanfare in 2013. The centerpiece of the ballyhoo was a New York Times Magazine profile pronouncing it “the best book…
February 6, 2017
In the Press
Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief
George Saunders’s much-awaited first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” is like a weird folk art diorama of a cemetery come to life. Picture, as a backdrop, one of those primitively…
February 6, 2017