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Lincoln in the Bardo review: George Saunders’ Man Booker Prize winner
This is George Saunders’s first novel, and it has been thirstily anticipated. Since his debut collection of stories, in 1996, his blend of satire, sentiment and linguistic sensibility has made…
October 17, 2017
In the Press
George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
George Saunders’s surreal, experimental first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday, marking the second year in a row that the prize has gone to…
October 17, 2017
In the Press
Unearthing African American History
This is the thing about history: it is never done telling its stories about the past. On Monday night, Oct. 10, the Citizens Association of Georgetown held a meeting at…
October 10, 2017
In the Press
George Saunders Talks Fear, Joy, and Getting ‘More Precisely Manic’
Few authors anywhere get more hype than George Saunders. But the man is truly a prose wizard, as reaffirmed in this year’s Lincoln in the Bardo, which the New York Times likened to “a…
October 10, 2017