The shades are gathering again for George Saunders. In 2017, when the celebrated short-story writer published his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” ghosts and grievers swarmed the Oak Hill Cemetery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author George Saunders poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) NEW ...

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 ...

In his most recent novel, Vigil, George Saunders grapples with these questions of climate denial and accountability through the story of K.J. Boone, a dying Big Oil executive who is visited in his ...

Jill “Doll” Blaine is hurtling toward a mansion in Dallas to appear, as much as she can appear, at the deathbed of her latest charge: an 87-year-old oil CEO named K.J. Boone. Jill’s role is to provide ...

Her new “charge” is K. J. Boone, an oil executive with only hours to go. Jill sets about her task for the 343rd time, only to find it unusually complicated, first by the resistance of Boone himself, ...

new video loaded: George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You transcript “I have rarely seen people at ‘The New York Times’ as excited to catch a glimpse of someone as when George ...

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 ...

The acclaimed author will receive the honor at the 76th National Book Awards in November Pat Martin George Saunders will be awarded the 2025 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters ...

This past November, I headed to the National Book Award gala, after another day of bad news. I cannot even recall what calamity had just occurred; there are so many of them now. It was hard to spend ...

NEW YORK – George Saunders' path from obscurity to acclaim began some 30 years ago, not long after he finished a novel his wife could hardly stand. “I used to think the job of serious fiction was to ...