Emily Bourke, Philip Coleman, and Steve Gronert Ellerhoff

George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

This bibliography represents an attempt to list all of George Saunders’s published work from the start of his career until the end of 2016, including magazine publications of individual stories—which often appear in different versions in the author’s short story collections—as well as collected and uncollected essays, articles, and interviews. Reviews of Saunders’s works, together with critical essays, from print and online sources are also listed. There may be gaps, and this bibliography will inevitably grow in time, but it is offered here as a preliminary tool for research, study, and further reading.

Part I: Works by George Saunders

Short Fiction “A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room.” The Northwest Review 24.2 (1986): 412–426. “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.” Kenyon Review 14.4 (1992): 142–155. (collected in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, 1996) “Downtrodden Mary’s Failed Campaign of Terror.” Quarterly West 34 (Winter & Spring 1992). (collected in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, 1996)

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“Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz.” The New Yorker (5 Oct. 1992): 148–153. (collected in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, 1996) “The 400-Pound CEO.” Harper’s Magazine (Feb. 1993): 52–58. (collected in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, 1996) “The Wavemaker Falters.” Witness VII.2 (Nov. 1993): 118–124. (collected in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, 1996) “Isabelle.” Indiana Review 17.1 (April 1994): 27–30. Reprinted in Harper’s Magazine (Sep. 1994): 32–37. (collected in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, 1996) “Bounty.” Harper’s Magazine (Apr. 1995): 35–59. (collected in CivilWar Land in Bad Decline, 1996) “Sticks.” Story (Winter 1994). Reprinted Harper’s Magazine (Nov. 1995): 32. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “The Falls.” The New Yorker (22 Jan. 1996): 72–74, 76–77. (collected in Pastoralia, 2000) “Winky.” The New Yorker (28 Jul. 1997): 66–71. (collected in Pastoralia, 2000) “The Deacon.” The New Yorker (22 and 29 Dec. 1997): 74, 76–77. (uncollected) “The End of FIRPO in the World.” The New Yorker (22 May 1998): 76–77. (collected in Pastoralia, 2000) “Sea Oak.” The New Yorker (28 Dec. 1998): 112–116, 118–123. (collected in Pastoralia, 2000) “I CAN SPEAK!™” The New Yorker (21 and 28 June 1999): 85, 87–88. Anthologized in Burned Children of America. Rome: Minimum Fax, 2001. Also in Here Lies. San Francisco: Trip Street Press, 2000. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “The Barber’s Unhappiness.” The New Yorker (20 Dec. 1999): 74–84. (collected in Pastoralia, 2000) Four Institutional Monologues. McSweeney’s 4 (Late Winter, 2000). Includes:

“Exhortation” (collected in Tenth of December, 2013); “Design Proposal” (uncollected); “A Friendly Reminder” (uncollected); “93990.” Anthologized in The Secret History of Science Fiction. San Francisco: Tachyon, 2009 (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006)

“Pastoralia.” The New Yorker (3 Apr. 2000): 68–75, 78, 80–81. (collected in Pastoralia, 2000) George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 247

“The Big Durn Flood: An Outtake from Pastoralia.” Conjunctions 36 (Spring 2001): 112–116. (uncollected) “My Flamboyant Grandson.” The New Yorker (28 Jan. 2002): 78–81. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “Jon.” The New Yorker (27 Jan. 2003): 70–83. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “The Red Bow.” Esquire (Sep. 2003): 192. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “Chicago Christmas, 1984.” The New Yorker (22 Dec. 2003): 79–82. (collected as “Christmas” in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “Bohemians.” The New Yorker (20 Jan. 2004): 74–79. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “My Amendment.” The New Yorker (8 Mar. 2004): 38, 41. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “Adams.” The New Yorker (9 Aug. 2004): 86–88. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband.” Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren’t as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn’t Quite Finish So Maybe You Could Help Us Out. San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2005. 37–46. (uncollected) “Brad Carrigan, American.” Harper’s Magazine (Mar. 2005): 80–88. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “CommComm.” The New Yorker (1 Aug. 2005): 64–72. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “In Persuasion Nation.” Harper’s Magazine (Nov. 2005): 81–88. (collected in In Persuasion Nation, 2006) “Puppy.” The New Yorker (28 May 2007): 66–71. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “Al Roosten.” The New Yorker (2 Feb. 2009): 60–64. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “Victory Lap.” The New Yorker (5 Oct. 2009): 68–75. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “Heavy Artillery.” The New Yorker (25 Jan. 2010): 31–32. (uncollected) “Escape from Spiderhead.” The New Yorker (20 Dec. 2010): 110–119. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “Home.” The New Yorker (13 June 2011): 64, 67–70, 72, 74–75. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) 248 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

“My Chivalric Fiasco.” Harper’s Magazine (Sep. 2011): 69–72. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “Tenth of December.” The New Yorker (31 Oct. 2011): 80–89. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “The Semplica Girl Diaries.” The New Yorker (15 Oct. 2012): 68–78. (collected in Tenth of December, 2013) “Fox 8: A Story.” Kindle Single, Amazon.com (9 Apr. 2013). (uncollected) “A Two-Minute Note to the Future.” Chipotle® bag (2014). (uncollected) “Mother’s Day.” The New Yorker (Feb. 8 & 15, 2016): 84–92. (uncollected)

Essays and Articles

“Why I Wrote Phil.” Amazon.com (n.d.): web. “Review of ‘Omon Ra’ by Victor Pelevin.” SPIN Magazine (Feb. 1997). “How to Capture Our Culture: Words.” New York Times Magazine (8 Dec. 1999): 29. “Juror essay.” O. Henry Awards Anthology. New York: Anchor, 2000. “Los Angeles, CA Panorama.” Feed Magazine (Jun. 2000): web. “George Saunders.” Slate (Jun. 2000): web. “How We Did It.” New York Times Magazine (9 Apr. 2000): 83. “Johnny Tremain.” The New Yorker (Christmas Issue 2000): 124–133. (collected as “Thank You, Esther Forbes” in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “Strip Mind: The King of Autumn.” New York Times Magazine (Jan. 2001): 52. “A Remembrance.” Quarterly West 53 (Fall 2001). “The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” “Introduction” in Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Modern Library Classics, 2001. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “My Guilty Pleasures.” The New Yorker (3 Feb. 2003): 35. “Why Peace?” Neue Zurchen Zeitung (7 Feb. 2003). “A Survey of the Literature.” The New Yorker (22 Sep. 2003): 118–125. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “Chicago Christmas, 1984.” The New Yorker (Christmas Fiction Issue 2003): 79–82. “Exit Strategy.” Slate (27 May 2004). “Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA.” Slate (26 Aug. 2004). (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 249

“Flooding the Zone.” The New Yorker (6 Dec. 2004): 64–69. “The Food Fundamentalist.” The New York Times Magazine (6 Mar. 2005): 80. “Eat, Memory: The Absolutely No-Anything Diet.” New York Times (13 Mar. 2005): 77–78. “Pynchon Now.” Bookforum (Jun.–Sep. 2005): web. “The New Mecca.” GQ 75.11 (Nov. 2005): 270–285. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “The battle for precision.” The Guardian (19 Mar. 2005): web. “Nostalgia.” The New Yorker (10 Apr. 2006): 40. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “The Incredible Buddha Boy.” GQ 76.6 (7 Jun. 2006): 168–227. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “A Brief Study of the British.” The Guardian Magazine (22 Jul. 2006). (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “Proclamation.” The New Yorker (25 Aug. 2006): 36. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “The Cats of 9/11.” The Huffington Post: The Blog (25 Aug. 2006): web. Weekly humour/commentary column. The Guardian (Sep. 2006–Nov. 2008). “Borat: The Memo.” The New Yorker (4 Dec. 2006): 57. “Ask the Optimist!” The New Yorker (18 Dec. 2006): 48–53. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “The Great Divider.” GQ 79.1 (Dec. 2006): 100–136. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra.” (collected in The Braindead Megaphone , 2007) “Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment.” Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two. James Harmon, ed. New York: Simon & Shuster, 2007. (collected as “Thought Experiment” in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “The Perfect Gerbil: Reading Barthelme’s ‘The School.’” McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern 24 (28 May 2007). (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “The Big Table of New Years’ Resolutions.” GOOD Magazine (Jan. 2007). “It’s Vonnegut Day!” New York Observer (18 Apr. 2007): web. “Woof: A Plea of Sorts.” O Magazine (Aug. 2007): web. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) 250 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

“The Braindead Megaphone.” GQ 77.9 (Sep. 2007): 315–322. (collected in The Braindead Megaphone, 2007) “A Bone to Pick.” O Magazine 8.9 (Sep. 2007): 250. “Books That Made a Difference to George Saunders.” O Magazine 8.10 (10 Oct. 2007): 266–270. “Soviet Deadpan.” The New York Times Book Review (9 Dec. 2007): 35. “Bill Clinton, Private Citizen.” GQ 77.12 (Dec. 2007): 364–379. “Y’all Torture Me Home.” The New Yorker (24 Mar. 2008): 28–29. “Hypocrites.” The New Yorker (9 Jun. & 16 Jun. 2008): 100–101. “Antiheroes.” The New Yorker (23 Jun. 2008): 36–37. “Active Metaphors.” Harper’s Magazine (Aug. 2008): 19–22. “Men and Women. . . How to Tell Them Apart.” O Magazine 9.7 (Summer 2008): 181–182. “My Gal.” The New Yorker (21 Sep. 2008): 44–45. “In Memoriam: George Saunders on David Foster Wallace.” Five Dials 10 (2008): web. “Always another word.” Harper’s Magazine (Jan. 2009): 26–30. “Tent City, U.S.A.” GQ 79.9 (Sep. 2009): 298–317. “The View from the South Side, 1970.” GRANTA (Autumn 2009): 120–122. “Informal Remarks from the David Foster Wallace Memorial Service in New York on October 23, 2008.” The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. Samuel Cohen and Lee Kanstantinou, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012. “George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates.” New York Times (31 Jul. 2013): web. (published as Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness) “On Process.” Kenyon Review 36.3 (Summer 2014): 4–6. “Long Story Short.” O Magazine 15.7 (Jul. 2014): 82–83. “Eye-Opening Short Stories Everyone Should Read.” O Magazine (Jul. 2014): web. “My Writing Education: A Timeline.” The New Yorker (22 Oct. 2015): web. “One Sunday Morning.” New York Times Magazine (13 Mar. 2016): 26. “Taut Rhythmic Surfaces.” The Southampton Review X.1 (Winter/Spring 2016): 145–148. “Trump Days.” The New Yorker (11 Jul. 2016): 50–61.

Poetry

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Short Fiction Collections

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. New York: Random House, 1996. Pastoralia. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000. In Persuasion Nation. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. Tenth of December. New York: Random House, 2013.

Chapbooks

The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp. New York: Villard Books, 2000. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.

Omnibus

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.

Novel

Lincoln in the Bardo. New York: Random House, 2017.

Collected Nonfiction

A Bee Stung Me, So I Killed All the Fish (Notes from the Homeland 2003–2006). New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. The Braindead Megaphone: Essays. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness. New York: Random House, 2014.

Interviews

“George Saunders | Author.” The Legacy Project (n.d.): web. Batten, Tom. “Interview with George Saunders.” Failbetter.com (n.d.): web. Dickinson, Marc. “Interview with George Saunders.” American Microreviews and Interviews (n.d.): web. Grant, Gavin J. “George Saunders.” indiebound.org (n.d.): web. Lepucki, Edan. “Interview with George Saunders.” National Book Foundation (n.d.): web. Percesepe, Gary. “George Saunders Interview.” New World Writing (n.d.): web. 252 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

Childers, Doug. “The Wag Chats with George Saunders.” WAG: A Magazine for Decadent Readers (1 Jul. 2000): web. “George Saunders: the very persistent mapper of happenstance.” Poets 28.4 (July/August 2000): 34–40. Garrigan, Mark. “Beyond Civilwarland: An Interview with George Saunders.” Hayden’s Ferry Review (Fall 2000–Winter 2001): 99–103. Wylie, J. J. “An Interview with George Saunders.” The Missouri Review 24.2 (2001): 53–67. Darby, Matthew. “Between the Poles of Biting & Earnest: an interview with George Saunders.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art 35 (Spring/Summer 2001): 87–99. “Interview with George Saunders.” CutBank 60 (Fall 2003): 37–39. Zulkey, Claire. “The George Saunders Interview.” Zulkey.com (5 Sep. 2003): web. Marcus, Ben. “George Saunders.” The Believer (Mar. 2004). (Collected in The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. San Francisco: Believer, 2005.) “A Conversation with George Saunders.” Tin House 6.1 (Fall 2004): 68–84. Kesey, Roy. “Roy Kesey Interviews George Saunders.” MaudNewton.com (7 Sep. 2005): web. Birnbaum, Robert. “George Saunders.” The Morning News (15 Sep. 2005): web. “An Interview with George Saunders.” Denver Quarterly 40.2 (2005). Abraham, Josh. “George Saunders, Writer.” Gothamist (14 Nov. 2005): web. “George Saunders: An Interview.” Sonora Review 51 (2006). “Interview with George Saunders.” Silent Voices, Volume 2. Glendale, CA: Ex Machina Press, 2006. “Q&A: George Saunders.” Giant Magazine (Apr./May 2006). “Questions for George Saunders.” New York Times Magazine (9 Apr. 2006): 17. Martini, Adrienne. “An Interview With George Saunders.” Bookslut (Jun. 2006): web. Birnbaum, Robert. “George Saunders.” Identity Theory (5 Jun. 2006): web. Whitney, Joel. “George Saunders: Dig the Hole.” Guernica (11 Aug. 2006): web. Nawotka, Ed. “George Saunders’ Rebel Yell.” Texas Observer (11 Aug. 2006): web. Smith, Adam. “An Interview with George Saunders.” St John’s University Humanities Review 5.1 (Spring 2007): web. Late Show with David Letterman. New York: CBS (6 Sep. 2007): television. The Colbert Report. New York: Comedy Central (8 Oct. 2007): television. George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 253

Westin, Monica. “Consumed with Desire: Writer George Saunders discusses his Collaboraction collaboration.” Newcity Stage (27 Oct. 2008): web. Solomon, Deborah. “The Stuff of Fiction.” New York Times Magazine 155.53544 (4 Sep. 2009): 17. “An Interview with George Saunders.” Fugue 39 (Summer/Fall 2010). Treisman, Deborah. “George Saunders’s Wild Ride.” The New Yorker (12 Dec. 2010): web. Speckman, Chris. “A Conversation with George Saunders.” Booth 3.7 (2011): web. Dacey, Patrick. “The George Saunders Interview, Part I.” BOMB – Artists in Conversation (26 Apr. 2011): web. Dacey, Patrick. “Death by Icicle.” Harper’s Magazine (Jul. 2011): 24–27. Treisman, Deborah. “This Week in Fiction: George Saunders.” New Yorker (Oct. 21, 2011): web. Conklin, Lydia. “Short-Answer Interview: George Saunders.” Epiphany 10 (2012): web. “The Crazy Elements: PW Talks with George Saunders.” Publishers Weekly (12 Nov. 2012): 38. Hammond, Stuart. “George Saunders.” Dazed (2013): web. “Interview with George Saunders.” goodreads.com (Jan. 2013): web. Treisman, Deborah. “On ‘Tenth of December’: An Interview with George Saunders.” New Yorker (Jan. 2013): web. “George Saunders and Andy Ward.” Slate Book Review (7 Jan. 2013): web. Rawson, Keith. “10 Questions with George Saunders.” Lit Reactor (8 Jan. 2013): web. Symonds, Alexandria. “How George Saunders Comes to Terms.” Interview (11 Jan. 2013): web. “George Saunders.” New Statesman (11 Jan. 2013): 51. “The Mind of George Saunders.” Morning Joe. New York: MSNBC (12 Jan. 2013): television. Grant, Dew. “Language is a Virus: An Interview with George Saunders.” Observer (15 Jan. 2013): web. “Conversation: George Saunders, Author of ‘Tenth of December’.” PBS NewsHour. New York: PBS (18 Jan. 2013): television. “George Saunders on Absurdism and Ventriloquism in ‘Tenth of December’.” NPR (20 Jan. 2013): web. Bowers, Andy. “George Saunders, Live at Politics & Prose.” Slate (22 Jan. 2013): podcast. Charlie Rose. New York: PBS (29 Jan. 2013): television. The Colbert Report. New York: Comedy Central (29 Jan. 2013): television. 254 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

Morgan, Dolan. “An Interview with George Saunders.” Atlas Review 1 (Feb. 2013). Borrelli, Christopher. “Author George Saunders maps the origins of his writing.” Chicago Tribune (1 Feb. 2013): web. Hudson, Genevieve. “Q&A: George Saunders.” Portland Monthly (6 Feb. 2013): web. Rea, Kari. “Sunday Spotlight: George Saunders on ‘Tenth of December’.” ABCnews.com (10 Feb. 2013): web. Bernard, Katherine. “Gchatting with George Saunders.” The Paris Review (14 Feb. 2013): web. “Is an MFA in creative writing worth the cost? Author George Saunders says ‘yes’.” Metro (18 Feb. 2013): web. Bustillos, Maria. “Real As Hell: An Interview with George Saunders.” The Awl (19 Feb. 2013): web. Rheannon, Francesca. “New Short Stories by George Saunders & Jennifer Haigh.” Writer’s Voice (28 Feb. 2013): podcast. Williamson, Eugenia. “Incrementally more kind: George Saunders changes the world.” The Boston Phoenix (5 Mar. 2013): web. Panovka, Rebecca M. “15 Questions with George Saunders.” The Harvard Crimson (7 Mar. 2013): 63–68. Merschel, Michael. “Bonus: George Saunders, live and uncut.” Dallas Morning News (15 Apr. 2013): web. Fox, Killian. “George Saunders: ‘It was good to have a painful immersion in capitalism.’” The Guardian (26 May 2013): web. “Meeting George Saunders.” Flare 35.6 (Jun. 2013): 108–115. Clement, Raul. “An Irreducible Language Object.” Mayday Magazine 7 (Fall 2013): web. Petersen, Monica. “‘Blunder on to New Truths’: An Interview with George Saunders.” Superstition Review 12 (Fall 2013): web. Numedahl, Abbey. “Interview with George Saunders.” Floodwall 4 (Fall 2013): web. Zulkey, Claire. “The George Saunders 10th anniversary interview.” Zulkey (9 Sep. 2013): web. O’Driscoll, Bill. “Author George Saunders discusses how his writing style is evolving.” Pittsburgh City Paper (4 Dec. 2013): web. Winnette, Colin. “Author George Saunders: ‘Holding Out A High Vision Of What Art Is Supposed To Do’.” Buzzfeed.com (2 Jan. 2014): web. Daley, David. “George Saunders: ‘I want to tell the truth about what really matters in a simple way’.” Salon.com (4 Jan. 2014): web. George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 255

Butler, Tray. “Author talks accolades, expectations and kindness.” myAJC (13 Jan. 2014): web. Howe, Brian. “‘A lot of the writing process is just radically preferring something to something else.’ George Saunders on writing.” INDY Week Arts Blog (29 Jan. 2014): web. McVeigh, Paul. “George Saunders Interview.” paulmcveighwriter.com (10 Mar. 2014): web. Clark, Alex. “George Saunders: ‘The things we felt about American culture couldn't be reached by simple realism. It had to be a little nutty’.” The Guardian (13 Mar. 2014): web. The Colbert Report. New York: Comedy Central (24 Apr. 2014): television. “George Saunders: The Kind Side.” Barnes and Noble Review (7 May 2014): web. “George Saunders’s Humor.” The New Yorker (29 Jun. 2014): web. KCRW. “Episode 24”. The Organist (22 Jul. 2014): podcast. “Interview with George Saunders.” The Harvard Advocate 148.2 (Winter 2014). “More Scope & Kindness & Power in My Books.” Writer’s Chronicle 47.2 (Oct./Nov. 2014). Pollock, Matt. “George Saunders Jammed to Wilco While Writing ‘Tenth of December’.” Chicago Magazine (May 2015): web. Fishow, Rebecca. “Interview with George Saunders.” Cosmonauts Avenue (1 May 2015): web. “George Saunders’ Long Journey to Short Story Success.” CBSnews.com (14 Jun. 2015): web. “Interview: George Saunders and Ben Marcus.” GRANTA (11 Sep. 2015): web. Naimon, David. “Interview with George Saunders.” Glimmer Train Stories 92 (Winter 2015): 17–27. “Take Two: George Saunders and Carly Rae Jepsen.” T: The New York Times Style Magazine (Nov. 11, 2015): web. Egan, Jennifer. “Choose Your Own Adventure.” New York Times Magazine (15 Nov. 2015): 74–78. Feldman, Lucy. “A Shrink-Wrapped ‘War and Peace’.” Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) 266.121 (20 Nov. 2015): D4. “George Saunders: Edginess is easy, hopeful is harder.” MPR News (7 Dec. 2015): web. “George Saunders: On Story.” The Atlantic (8 Dec. 2015): web. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. New York: CBS (8 Dec. 2015): television. 256 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

Treisman, Deborah. “This Week in Fiction: George Saunders on Authorial Bullying, Parenting, and Consciousness After Death.” The New Yorker (1 Feb. 2016): web. “Susan Sarandon.” Interview (Apr. 2016): 80–135. “George Saunders was live.” @GeorgeSaundersFans. Facebook (12 May 2016): web. Ryan, Aidan. “George Saunders Interview.” The White Review 17 (July 2016): 10–21.

Part II: Works on George Saunders

Reviews CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996)

“Civil War Land in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella.” Publishers Weekly (n.d.): web. “Civil Warland in Bad Decline.” Kirkus (1 Nov. 1995). Eder, Richard. “BOOK REVIEW / FICTION.” LA Times (11 Jan. 1996): web. Gates, David. “Cyberdrudges of Dystopia.” Newsweek 127.4 (22 Jan. 1996): 62. “Touring Dystopia.” Boston Phoenix (Feb. 1996): web. McInerney, Jay. “Virtual Realities.” New York Times (4 Feb. 1996): web. Lambert, Pam, Paula Chin, Ruth Coughlin, et al. “Picks and Pans Review: Civilwarland in Bad Decline.” People 45.10 (11 Mar. 1996). Hiltbrand, David. “A satirist’s view of an American slowly twisting.” Philly.com (4 May 2006): web. Tanner, Ron. “Reviews.” Studies in Short Fiction 35.1 (Winter 1998): 94. Chumley, Sean. “Debut story collection introduces quirky and original voice of George Saunders.” Examiner.com (7 Jan. 2010): web.

The Very Persistent Grappers of Frip (2000)

“The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.” Publishers Weekly (n.d.): web. Lis, Andrew. “The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.” BookPage (Aug. 2000): web. Schwarzbaum, Lisa. “The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.” Entertainment Weekly (8 Sep. 2000): web. George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 257

McCormick, Shannon. “The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders.” The Austin Chronicle (22 Dec. 2000): web. Hirschhorn, Joel. “Review: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.” Variety (6 Mar. 2005): web. Watson, Victor. “The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.” Inis 13 (Autumn 2005). Sender, Courtney. “Love and Loneliness: Adult Authors of Y.A. and Children’s Literature.” Los Angeles Review of Books (10 Jul. 2013): web. Pinkerton, Dan. “Marvelous Medicine: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.” Pank Magazine (14 Feb. 2014): web.

Pastoralia (2000)

Dawkins, Curtis. “Saunders’ Pastoralia.” Bull (n.d.): web. “Pastoralia.” Publishers Weekly (n.d.): web. Knox Brown, Amy. “Pastoralia (review).” The Missouri Review 23.2 (2000): 182–83. J. A. “Pastoralia by George Saunders.” Barcelona Review 17 (2000): web. Lehmann, Chris. “It’s a theme-park life.” Salon.com (26 Apr. 2000): web. Gathman, Roger. “Pastoralia: Stories.” The Austin Chronicle (19 May 2000): web. Tillman, Lynne. “Future Shock.” The New York Times (28 May 2000): web. O’Nan, Stewart. “Review: Pastoralia.” Boston Review (1 Jun. 2000): web. “Pastoralia: Stories.” The New York Times (4 Jun. 2000). Oates, Joyce Carol. “An Endangered Species.” New York Review of Books (29 Jun. 2000). Begley, Adam. “Beautiful losers.” The Guardian (5 Aug. 2000): web. Tobias, Scott. “George Saunders: Pastoralia.” AV Club (29 Mar. 2002): web. Magee, C. Max. “The Worst Case Scenario: Pastoralia by George Saunders.” The Millions (21 Oct. 2007): web. Sech, Justin. “‘Pastoralia:’ Commentary and a Brief Review.” Panther News Network (1 May 2013): web. Britt, Ryan. “Genre in the Mainstream: George Saunders’ Pastoralia.” Tor.com (13 Dec. 2011): web.

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (2005)

Hathcock, Barrett. “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders.” The Quarterly Conversation (n.d.): web. 258 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

“The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.” Kirkus Reviews 73.14 (15 Jul. 2005): 763. “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.” Publishers Weekly 252.8 (18 Jul. 2005): 177–78. King, Owen. “‘Phil’: an allegory from an outlandish imagination.” Boston. com (2 Oct. 2005): web. Weinberger, Eric. “‘The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil’: This Land Is My Land.” New York Times (2 Oct. 2005): web. “George Saunders: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.” KCRW (6 Oct. 2005): web. Amidon, Stephen. “American Theme Park.” New Statesman 135.4799 (7 Mar. 2006): 65–66. Faber, Michael. “Morality’s Ghost.” The Guardian (27 May 2006): web. Tayler, Christopher. “Kill the tuna can.” London Review of Books 28.11 (8 Jun. 2006): 18–19. Freeman, John. “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, by George Saunders.” Independent (12 Jun. 2006): web. Granger, Ben. “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: George Saunders.” Spike Magazine (6 Apr. 2007): web. Cheuse, Alan. “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.” NPR (17 Jul. 2011): web. Stivers-Isakova, Valerie. “Re-Reading George Saunders: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.” Huffington Post: The Blog (27 Mar. 2013): web.

In Persuasion Nation (2006)

Barringer, David. “In Persuation Nation by George Saunders.” WordRiot. org (n.d.): web. “In Persuasion Nation.” Publishers Weekly 253.7 (13 Feb. 2006): 60–61. “In Persuasion Nation: Stories” Kirkus Reviews 74.6 (15 Mar. 2006): 259. Seaman, Donna. “In Persuasion Nation.” Booklist 102.15 (1 Apr. 2006): 20. Geier, Thom. “In Persuasion Nation.” Entertainment Weekly 873 (21 Apr. 2006): 77. Goldberg, Carole. “Surreal, Disturbing Visions From An Alternate Universe.” Hartford Courant (23 Apr. 2006): web. Winslow, Art. “Modern life.” Los Angeles Times (23 Apr. 2006): web. Sacks, Sam. “Review: In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders.” The Fanzine (24 Apr. 2006): web. “In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders.” Jane 10.4 (May 2006): 38. Begley, Adam. “Market Tested.” New York Times (14 May 2006): web. George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 259

O’Grady, Brian. “Literature Consumed.” In These Times (26 May 2006): web Passaro, Vince. “Boxed In.” Nation 25 (26 Jun. 2006): 34–36. Novy, Adam. “A Review of In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders.” The Believer (Jun./Jul. 2006). “In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders.” Bookmarks Magazine 24 (Sep.–Oct. 2006). Hatch, Jeremy. “In Persuasion Nation: Stories.” CurledUp.com (2007): web. Collier, Aaron. “Deconstructing Moral Distinctions: A Review of George Saunders’s In Persuasion Nation.” The Other Journal 9 (Jun. 2007): web.

The Braindead Megaphone (2007)

“The Braindead Megaphone: Essays.” Publishers Weekly 254.26 (25 Jun. 2007): 46–47. “The Braindead Megaphone: Essays.” Kirkus Review 75.13 (1 Jul. 2007): 654. Kirschling, Gregory. “The Braindead Megaphone: Essays.” Entertainment Weekly 952 (9 Jul. 2007): 83. Kingsbury, Pam. “The Braindead Megaphone: Essays.” Library Journal 132.13 (1 Aug. 2007): 88. Seaman, Donna. “The Braindead Megaphone.” Booklist 103.22 (1 Aug. 2007): 23. Bearman, Joshuah. “Journeys with George Saunders, of Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers.” Huffington Post: The Blog (18 Mar. 2010): web. Taylor, Ihsan. “Paperback Row.” New York Times Book Review (2 Feb. 2014): 24.

Tenth of December (2013)

“Tenth of December.” BookTrust.org.uk (n.d.): web. Holdefer, Charles. “Tenth of December: Stories.” New York Journal of Books (n.d.): web. Dawkins, Curtis. “George Saunders’ Tenth of December.” Bull (n.d.): web. Parenti, Dino. “Book Review: Tenth of December by George Saunders.” Pantheon Magazine (n.d.): web. Petaccio, Carmen. “Review: Tenth of December by George Saunders.” Columbia Journal (n.d.): web. “Tenth of December.” Kirkus Reviews 80.20 (15 Oct. 2012): 187. “Tenth of December.” Publishers Weekly 259.45 (5 Nov. 2012): 45. 260 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

May, Charles E. “Best American Short Stories 2012: Part III.” Reading the Short Story (12 Nov. 2012): web. Maazel, Fiona. “Review: Tenth of December, by George Saunders.” Electric Lit (14 Nov. 2012): web. Seaman, Donna. “Tenth of December.” Booklist 109.7 (1 Dec. 2012): 23. Donaldson, Brian. “George Saunders – Tenth of December ***.” The List (13 Dec. 2012): web. Robbins, Michael. “George Saunders gets real in ‘Tenth of December’.” Chicago Tribune (20 Dec. 2012): web. Charles, Alice. “Review: Tenth of December by George Saunders.” Huffington Post: The Blog (28 Dec. 2012): web. Ulin, David L. “‘Tenth of December’ by George Saunders is accessible but with deeper layers underneath.” LA Times (28 Dec. 2012): web. McGregor, John. “Tenth of December by George Saunders.” The Times (29 Dec. 2012): web. J. A. “Tenth of December.” The Barcelona Review (2013): web. Moore, Fernanda. “George Saunders, Anti-Minimalist: For once, the hype surrounding a hip writer is deserved.” Commentary 135.5 (2013): 50–52. “Giving Hope to the American Short Story.” The Wall Street Journal (4 Jan. 2013): web. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic. “The states they’re in.” Financial Times (4 Jan. 2013): web. Sacks, Sam. “Giving Hope to the American Short Story.” Wall Street Journal – Eastern Edition 260.160 (5 Jan. 2013): C6. Amidon, Stephen. “Tenth of December by George Saunders.” The Sunday Times (6 Jan. 2013): web. Kelly, Stuart. “Book review: Tenth of December, by George Saunders.” The Scotsman (6 Jan. 2013): web. Lovell, Joel. “The Beautiful, Brutal Vision of George Saunders: ‘Stay Open, Forever, So Open It Hurts.’” New York Times Sunday Magazine (6 Jan. 2013): 22–47. Wolf, David. “Tenth of December by George Saunders – review.” The Guardian (6 Jan. 2013): web. Miller, Laura. “‘Tenth of December’: Bard of the Wage Slaves.” Salon.com (7 Jan. 2013): web. Turrentine, Jeff. “George Saunders unleashed more satirical stories in ‘Tenth of December’.” Washington Post (7 Jan. 2013): web. George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 261

“From George Saunders: A Dark ‘December’.” NPR Books (8 Jan. 2013): web. Love, Matthew. “Review: Tenth of December by George Saunders.” Time Out New York (8 Jan. 2013): web. Brunner, Rob. “Tenth of December.” Entertainment Weekly 1241 (11 Jan. 2013): 87. Duhr, David. “Book Review: ‘Tenth of December,’ by George Saunders.” The Dallas Morning News (11 Jan. 2013): web. Ciabattari, Jane. “‘Tenth of December’ by George Saunders.” Boston Globe (12 Jan. 2013): web. Connelly, Sherryl. “Book reviews: ‘Jojo Moyes’ ‘Me Before You,’ ‘George Saunders’ ‘Tenth of December.’” New York Daily News (13 Jan. 2013): web. Bryant, Rae. “Tenth of December.” Washington Independent Review of Books (14 Jan. 2013): web. McFarland, Kevin. “George Saunders: Tenth of December: Stories.” The AV Club (14 Jan. 2013): web. Kakutani, Michiko. “Personal Narratives, All Bound in Fantasy.” New York Times 162.56017 (15 Jan. 2013): C1–C6. Paredes, Rebecca. “‘Tenth of December’ by George Saunders Review.” University of California, Riverside: Highlander (15 Jan. 2013): web. Cox, Tom. “Tenth of December by George Saunders: Review.” The Telegraph (16 Jan. 2013): web. Hudson, Greg. “Book Review: Tenth of December, by George Saunders.” National Post (18 Jan. 2013): web. “Humour and hurting.” Statesman (19 Jan. 2013): web. Iglesias, Gabino. “Tenth of December by George Saunders.” Verbicide (19 Jan. 2013): web. Walsh, Bryan. “American Gothic.” Time 181.2 (21 Jan. 2013): 51. Wilson, Craig. “Tenth of December: Stories.” USA Today (21 Jan. 2013): web. Britt, Ryan. “George Saunders Controls Your Feelings Now: On Tenth of December.” Tor.com (23 Jan. 2013): web. O’Meara, Shea. “Review: George Saunders triumphs with smart short stories.” The Ithacan (24 Jan. 2013): web. Freeman, John. “Tenth of December by George Saunders: Review.” TheStar.com (25 Jan. 2013): web. Meatto, Keith. “Finding A Way: A Review of George Saunders, Tenth of December.” Frontpsych.com (25 Jan. 2013): web. Neima, Luke. “Tenth of December.” TLS 5730 (25 Jan. 2013): 20. 262 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

Bancroft, Colette. “Review: George Saunders’s ‘Tenth of December: Stories’.” Tampa Bay Times (26 Jan. 2013): web. Macdonald, Moira. “‘Tenth of December’: 10 beautifully bent stories by George Saunders.” The Seattle Times (27 Jan. 2013): web. Courteau, Sarah. “George Saunders: Literary Champion of the Little Man.” New Republic (30 Jan. 2013): web. Cowles, Gregory. “Rays of Hope.” The New York Times (1 Feb. 2013): web. “New Books.” Harper’s Magazine 326.1953 (Feb. 2013): 73–75. “Tenth of December.” Esquire 159.2 (Feb. 2013): 30–31. Thomas, Kevin. “Horn! Reviews: Tenth of December.” The Rumpus (1 Feb. 2013): web. Izenberg, Dafna. “Tenth of December: Stories.” Maclean’s 126.4 (4 Feb. 2013): 1. Mason, Wyatt. “Make This Not True.” New York Review of Books (6 Feb. 2014): web. Lorentzen, Christian. “Rescue Us, Writer.” London Review of Books 35.3 (7 Feb. 2013): 24. Yu, Charles. “A Drop of Concentrated Empathy.” Los Angeles Review of Books (8 Feb. 2013): web. Alford, Robert. “Tenth of December by George Saunders.” Paste Magazine (12 Feb. 2013): web. Frazel, Ellen. “Fifty Word Friday: Tenth of December by George Saunders.” Ostrich Review (8 Feb. 2013); web. Holmes, Catherine. “Review: Innovative new George Saunders collection full of old-fashioned virtues.” The Post and Courier (17 Feb. 2013): web. Merrigan, Tara. “Tenth of December George Saunders Review: This Book Will Get You Through the Winter.” Mic.com (19 Feb. 2013): web. Green, Daniel. “Tenth of December – George Saunders.” Full Stop (25 Feb. 2013): web. Joseph, Kelsey. “Kelsey Joseph on Tenth of December.” Los Angeles Review of Books (28 Feb. 2013): web. Tiemeyer, Justin. “George Saunders – Tenth of December: Stories.” Examiner.com (5 Mar. 2013): web. Stivers-Isakova, Valerie. “Review: Tenth of December, George Saunders.” Huffington Post (14 Mar. 2013): web. Rioux, Josh. “‘Tenth of December: Stories’ by George Saunders.” The Winnipeg Review (18 Mar. 2013): web. D. A. W. “Tenth of December.” AudioFile 21.6 (Apr./May 2013): 39. George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 263

Turner, Edwin. “Jangly George Saunders – Tenth of December Reviewed.” Biblioklept.org (8 Apr. 2013): web. Siegel, Nica. “Tenth of December.” The Indicator XXXV.3 (19 Apr. 2013): web. Srivastava, Amitabh. “Tenth of December.” Sahara Time 10.157 (27 Apr. 2013): 61. Burns, Daniel. “Precipice Poetics.” American Book Review 34.4 (May/ Jun. 2013): 5–6. Spinale, Kevin. “Discussing ‘Tenth of December.’” America: The National Catholic Review (23 May 2013): web. Byrne, Peter. “George Saunders’s Satire for Soft Hearts.” Swans.com (17 Jun. 2013): web. Kois, Dan and David Haglund. “The Audio Book Club on Tenth of December.” Slate.com (19 Jun. 2013): web. Garvey, John. “A Moralist with an Ear.” Commonweal 140.13 (16 Aug. 2013): 35–36. Starkey, David. “Review: Tenth of December.” Santa Barbara Independent (24 Aug. 2013): web. Prior, Karen Swallow. “Tenth of December.” Books & Culture: A Christian Review (Sep. 2013): web. Daylight, Tegan Bennet. “The World That Could Happen.” Sydney Review of Books (11 Dec. 2013): web. Miles, Matt. “George Saunders – The Tenth of December: Stories.” Englewood Review (12 Dec. 2013): web. Grossman, Lev and Radhika Jones. “Review.” Time 182.27 (30 Dec. 2013): 66. Preziozi, Dominic. “The ‘Semplica Girls’ of George Saunders.” dotCom monweal (21 Jan. 2014): web. Sanai, Leyla. “Review: Tenth of December, By George Saunders.” Independent (10 Mar. 2014): web. Newnham, David. “Tenth of December.” Nursing Standard 29.16 (5 Nov. 2014): 29. Rue, Nicholas. “Book Review: Tenth of December.” Bearcast Media: University of Cincinnati (12 Dec. 2014): web.

Congratulations, By The Way (2014)

“Congratulations, By the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness.” Publishers Weekly (n.d.): web. 264 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

“CONGRATULATIONS, BY THE WAY: Some Thoughts on Kindness.” Kirkus Reviews 82.4 (15 Feb. 2014): 346. Toohey, Elizabeth. “Graduation time: Skip ‘Congratulations, by the way’ by George Saunders and try David Foster Wallace instead.” The Christian Science Monitor (5 May 2014): web. J. E. M. “CONGRATULATIONS, BY THE WAY: Some Thoughts on Kindness.” AudioFile 23.3 (Oct/Nov 2014): 49. “The Great George Saunders on the Importance of Kindness.” Tampa Review Online (24 Apr. 2014): web. Epplin, Luke. “Congratulations, by the way: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders and fighting the TED Talks-ization of commence- ment speeches.” Salon.com (5 May 2014): web.

Fox 8: A Story (audio)

“Fox 8: A Story.” Publishers Weekly 260.21 (27 May 2013): 53.

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Hand, Elizabeth. “Lucky Wander Boy/The Poison Master/‘Jon’ (Book).” Fantasy and Science Fiction 104.6 (2003): 87.

Scholarly Works on Saunders

Chassay, J.F. “Candide in the Land of the Mutants – The Fiction of George Saunders.” Revue Francaise d’Etudes Americanes 94 (2002): 78–84. Cheney, Matt. “‘The Way We Name Things Is Important, Ma’: The Stories of George Saunders.” The English Journal 92.5 (2003): 84–6. Finbow, Steve. “The fantastically natural world of George Saunders.” TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa 2.2 (Dec. 2006): 491–95. Lee, Richard E. “George W. Saunders.” American Short-Story Writers since World War II: Fifth Series. Ed. Patrick Meanor. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007. 276–83. “Archival Work in a Surreal World: The Imagination of George Saunders.” Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists 26.1 (2008): 70–75. Trussler, Michael. “Melancholy Encyclopedias: Rick Moody’s ‘Demonology’ and George Saunders’ ‘Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz.’”Less Is More: Short Fiction Theory and Analysis. Eds. Jakob Lothe, Hans H. Skei, Per Winther. Oslo: Novus Press, 2008: 143–154. George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography 265

May, Charles E. “Kevin Wilson, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.” Reading the Short Story (1 Jul. 2009): web. Boddy, Kasia. The American Short Story since 1950. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Lee, Richard. “Narrative Point of View, Irony and Cultural Criticism in Selected Short Fiction by George Saunders.” Short Story 18.1 (2010): 81–94. May, Charles E. “The Experimental Short Story: Part II: David Means, Stephen [sic] Millhauser, George Saunders, Steven Dixon.” Reading the Short Story (19 Feb. 2010): web. Pogell, Sarah. “‘The Verisimilitude Inspector’: George Saunders as the New Baudrillard?” Critique 52.4 (2011): 460–78. Cesaratto, Todd. “Changes in Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Franz Fuhmann, and George Saunders.” Germanic Review 86.2 (Summer 2011): 73–92. Cohen, Samuel. “Fables of American Collectivity Circa 2005: Chris Bachelder’s U.S.!, Lydia Milley’s Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, and George Saunders’s The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 57.2 (2012): 207–20. Holdefer, Charles. “Still Kicking: George Saunders and ‘Shadow Realism’.” Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 2.1/2 (2012): 23–30. Rando, David. “George Saunders and the Postmodern Working Class.” Contemporary Literature 53.3 (2012): 437–60. May, Charles E. “Has George Saunders Caused a ‘Boom’ in the Short Story in 2013?” Reading the Short Story (27 Feb. 2013): web. May, Charles E. “George Saunders’ Perceptive Understanding of the Short Story as a Narrative Form.” Reading the Short Story (25 Mar. 2013): web. May, Charles E. “Puzzle the Prof: The Ending of George Saunders’ ‘Escape from Spiderhead.’” Reading the Short Story (16 May 2013): web. Burns, Daniel. “Precipice Poetics.” American Book Review 34.4 (2013): 5–6. Graham, Sarah. “Unfair Ground: Girlhood and Theme Parks in Contemporary Fiction.” Journal of American Studies 47.3 (2013): 589–604. Kunze, Peter C. “Send in the Clowns: Extraordinary Male Protagonists in Contemporary American Fiction.” Fat Studies 2.1 (Jan. 2013): 17–29. Lake, Christina Bieber. “The Faces of Others. George Saunders, James Tiptree Jr., and the Body for Sale.” Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Their, Aaron. “The Strange Arcane.” Nation 296.14 (2013): 38–40. 266 George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography

“‘It’s Not Yours to Do With What You Like!’ A Critical Reading of George Saunders’ Jon.” Voeglin View (12 Apr. 2014): web. Galef, D. “Fiction in Review: George Saunders.” Yale Review 102.3 (2014): 141–51. Garnett, Catherine. “The Future in the Pasture: Pastoral Precarity in George Saunders’s ‘Interior Gardens’.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 47.2 (2014): 137–62. Mari, Christopher. “George Saunders.” Current Biography 75.4 (2014): 82–87. Walonen, Michael K. “The Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Theme Parks in Contemporary Transatlantic Fiction.” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 25.3 (2014): 259–70. McAdams, James. “‘Now is the Time for Me to Win’: Social Dysfunction and ‘The New Sincerity’ in the Works of George Saunders.” Readings 1.1 (2015): web. Pfister, Joel. H“ ow America Works: Getting Personal to Get Personnel.” Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Miscellaneous Criticism

Garner, Dwight. “Living With Music: A Playlist by George Saunders.” New York Times: Artsbeat Blog (13 Jun. 2007): web. Hoinski, Michael. “George Saunders: Made in Amarillo.” Texas Monthly (21 Jan. 2013): web. Karr, Mary. “George Saunders.” Time 181.16 (29 Apr. 2013): 92. George Saunders On Story. Tom Mason and Sarah Klein, dir. New York: Redglass Pictures, 2015. notes on Contributors

Michael Basseler was awarded his PhD from the University of Gießen with a dissertation on the representation of cultural memory and trauma in contemporary African American novels, which won the JLU’s prize for the best dissertation from the fields of literature, language, philosophy, and history in 2008. Between 2008 and 2010, he held a post-doctoral schol- arship from the program JUST’US (Junior Science and Teaching Units); currently, he is a stand-in professor for English and American Literature and Culture at Gießen University (for Prof. Ansgar Nünning). His main fields of interest are African American literature and culture, short stories, literary and cultural theory, and the field of literature and knowledge.H is current project deals with the question of how the genre of the short story reflects on, generates, and disseminates forms of life and life-knowledge.

Kasia Boddy is a reader in American Literature at Cambridge University. She has published widely on American literature and culture but has a special interest in short fiction. Her books include The American Short Story Since 1950 (2010) and The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories (2011).

Emily Bourke is an Irish Research Council doctoral researcher in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on the origins and development of eco-horror as a motif in American popular culture. She is a film review editor for the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.

Philip Coleman is an associate professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he is also a Fellow. His most recent books are John Berryman’s Public Vision: Re-locating ‘the Scene of Disorder’ (2014), Berryman’s Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse (2014), and Critical Insights: David Foster Wallace (2015). With Clare Hayes-Brady he has co- edited a special issue of the journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice on reading short fiction in transnational contexts.

Aidan Cottrell-Boyce studied Theology at the University of Bristol, grad- uating in 2010, and received a PGCE from the University of Brighton in 2011. Whilst teaching at La Sainte Union School in North London, he studied for a Master’s degree in Theology at the University of London. He is currently completing doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. His research centers on the role of soteriological uncertainty in the forma- tion of religious doctrine and religious identity, drawing on the work of social-psychologist Michael Hogg.

Jurrit Daalder read for a DPhil in English Literature at Oxford University, focusing on the work of Richard Powers, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Franzen in relation to the Midwestern regionalist tradi- tion. He has published an essay on Wallace and the Midwest in Critical Insights: Midwestern Literature (2013). He was a 2015–2016 Esmond Harmsworth Graduate Scholar at Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, where he has also been the holder of a Supernumerary Research and Teaching Fellowship. Previously, he taught Dutch as a Harting scholar in the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Clare Hayes-Brady is a lecturer in American Literature at University College Dublin. She is the author of The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity and Resistance (2016), and she has published and presented widely on aspects of contemporary American literature, with a particular focus on gender identity and voice. With Philip Coleman she has co- edited a special issue of the journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice on reading short fiction in transnational contexts. Notes on Contributors 269

Dana Del George is a professor of English at Santa Monica College and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California. Her book, The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas: The Other World in the New World (2001), is an investigation of interests she developed growing up among several different cultures. Though she is US American of Swedish descent, she spent her childhood in a Zapotec village in Oaxaca, Mexico, because her parents are Bible translators. She teaches composition, introduction to literature, and The New Testament as literature. From the start of Internet-based distance education, she has used online platforms in her teaching and has contributed to the development of online pedagogy through committee work, mentoring, and pub- lisher consulting. She also enjoys teaching in the traditional classroom and has written a children’s book called The Queen of Fire and the King of Ice.

Steve Gronert Ellerhoff completed a PhD in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, in 2014. His thesis was published as Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (Routledge, 2016). He is also the author of a novel, Time’s Laughingstocks (2013), a collection of short stories, Tales from the Internet (2015), and other fiction appearing online and in print. Currently, he is writing Mole for the Animal Series published by Reaktion Books.

David Huebert is a PhD candidate researching interspecies erotics in American literature at the University of Western Ontario. He has published articles in the Canadian Review of American Studies, English Studies in Canada, and Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.2., a special issue on the theme of “tranimalities.” His story, “Enigma,” won the 2016 CBC Short Story Prize.

Adam Kelly is a lecturer in American Literature at the University of York. He has also taught at University College Dublin, where he completed his PhD, and at Harvard University. He is the author of American Fiction in Transition: Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism (2013), as well as of numerous journal articles and book chapters on vari- ous aspects of American literature. At York, he heads up the “Freedom After Neoliberalism” project, and his monograph-in-progress is provision- ally titled American Fiction at the Millennium: Neoliberalism and the New Sincerity. 270 Notes on Contributors

Richard Lee is a professor and past chair of English at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, where he teaches courses in world lit- eratures and critical theory. He received his PhD in comparative literature from Rutgers University in 2000 and was awarded in 2004 the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Lee is a co-editor of two editions of The Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short-Story Writers since WWII (series 3 & 5). Other publications include a monograph on globalization and sociolinguistics and articles on theoretical and critical issues in short fiction.

Gillian Moore is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, study- ing the rhetoric of therapy culture and pop-psychology in the fiction of contemporary US authors, including George Saunders. Other research interests include transatlantic literary exchange, the history of ideas and disability and gender studies. She is a literary editor with Totally Dublin magazine.

George Saunders is the author of eight books, including the story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2013, he was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and was included in Time’s list of the one hundred most influential people in the world. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

Michael Trussler teaches English at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. He received a BA and MA in English Literature from York University and a PhD from the University of Toronto, completing his doctoral thesis on the contemporary American short story. He has published widely on short fiction, the contemporary novel, and film. His short story collection, Encounters, won the City of Regina and Book of the Year Awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards in Canada in 2006. His collection of poetry, Accidental Animals, was short-listed for the same awards in 2007. A Homemade Life, an experimental chapbook of photographs and text, was published by JackPine Press in 2009. He was the editor of Wascana Review from 2002 to 2008. Notes on Contributors 271

Cameron Wilson is an assistant professor of English at William Jessup University in Northern California, where he lives with his wife and daugh- ter. His research interests include the fiction of the American South and the contemporary American short story. Works Cited

The texts listed here are cited throughout the essays in this volume. For a compre- hensive list of works by and about Saunders, see “George Saunders: A Preliminary Bibliography” in the present volume.

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A Bataille, George, 180 Abraham, 142–3 Batson, Daniel, 160 Abramović, Marina, 182 Baudelaire, Charles, 42, 45 Acampora, Ralph R., 110 Baudrillard, Jean, 33, 63, 67, 109, 205 Adorno, Theodor W., viii, 206, Bauman, Zygmunt, 208, 212 209, 215 Bayma, Todd, 110 Agamben, Giorgio, viii, 205, 212–14 Beach, Lou, 242 Albertson, Bethany, 26 Beetlejuice, ix Améry, Jean, 212 Bentham, Jeremy, 106 Andersen, Hans Christian, 198 Berger, John, 112 Ardagna, Yann, 107 Berlant, Lauren, 7–8, 47 Arendt, Hannah, 95 Berrett, Trevor, 192 Artaud, Antonin, 176, 184 Berryman, John, 176 Atwood, Margaret, 199–200 Bialostosky, Don, 223 Ayala, Marguerite Michelle, 190 Blanchard, Pascal, 107 Boddy, Kasia, viii Boëtsch, Gilles, 107 B Booth, Wayne, 155 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 63 Bourdieu, Pierre, 91 Bakhtin, Mikhail, vii, 222–6, 231–2 Bourke, Emily, viii Barth, John, 127 Boyle, T.C., vii Barthelme, Donald, vii, 3, 41, 81, Bradbury, Nicola, 36 183, 241 Bradbury, Ray, 197 Basseler, Michael, vii Brando, Marlon, 243

Brassier, Ray, 210, 211, 214 De Certeau, Michel, 11 Breithaupt, fritz, 155, 158, 164 De la Durantaye, Leland, 214 Buber, Martin, 225 Del George, Dana, vii Buell, Lawrence, 63 Dennett, William, 65 Bush, George W., 10, 26, 95 De Sade, Marquis, 175 Bustillos, Maria, 184 Díaz, Junot, 174 Butler, Judith, 109, 211 Dick, Philip K. (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), 33 Disney, Walt, 63 C Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 223, 225 Caldwell, Wilder, 59 Du Maurier, Daphne, 33 Calvino, Italo, 92 Dunne, Peter Finley, 176 Campbell, Joseph, 195, 201 Carpentier, Alejo, 122, 127 Carver, Raymond, v, 7, 13 E Cavell, Stanley, 209, 212–13 Eagleton, Terry, 1, 10, 126 Cederström, Carl, 174 Eckhart, Meister, 146 Cervantes, Miguel de, 242 Egan, Jennifer, 54 Cesaratto, Todd, 41, 105 Eggers, Dave, 54, 174 Chanady, Amaryll, 123 Ehrenreich, Barbara, 208 Chipotle Mexican Grill, vii, Eliot, George, 157 70–1. See also “Two-Minute Eli’phaz the Te’manite, 141 Note to the Future” Ellerhoff, Steve Gronert, viii Clarissa Dalloway, 50 Elliott, Jane, 47 Clark, Marty, 67 Ellis, Bret Easton, 177 Clarke, Arthur C., 127 Ellmann, Maud, 7 Colbert, Stephen, vi, 67 Emerson, Carryl, 223 Coleman, Philip, 89 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 72 Collier, John, 241 The Epic of Gilgamesh, 201 Connolly, William E., 208 Erasmus, Desidarius, 143 Conrad, Joseph, 42 Cooper, Dennis, 177 Coplan, Amy, 162 F Cottrell-Boyce, Aidan, viii Faber, Michael, 95 Cummings, E.E., 53 Faulkner, William (As I Lay Dying), ix Ferguson, Suzanne, 82 Ferris, Joshua, 2, 3, 174 D Fisher, Philip, 59 Daalder, Jurrit, viii Flieger, Jerry Aline, 80 Dáli, Salvador, 33 The Flintstones, 109 David, Lydia, vii Flores, Lisa, 26 Dean, Carolyn J., 212 Fluck, Winfried, 64, 67 Debord, Guy, 210 Foer, Jonathan Safran, 70 INDEX 289

Foucault, Michel, 106, 110, 144 J Franzen, Jonathan, v, 174 James, Henry (Isabel Archer), 50 Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 125 Jameson, Fredric, 33, 123, 126, Fukuyama, Francis, 35, 207, 213 128, 132 Jamison, Leslie, 167 Jaws, 242 G Jesus Christ, 138 Gallegos, Rómulo, 123, 126 Job, 140–1 Gardner, John, vii Johnson, Dan, 111 Genette, Gérard, 162 Joseph, Kelsey, 67 Gerrish, Brian, 138 Joyce, James, 12, 50, (Leopold Gogol, Nikolai, 131, 242 Bloom), 51, (Stephen Dedalus), Goldie, Peter, 163 67, 226 Gornick, Vivian, 10 Jung, Carl, 191–2, 198–9 GQ Magazine, vi, 191 Jurassic Park, 33 Guttierrez, Gustavo, 145

K H Kafka, Franz, 41, 142–3, 176 Hagy, Alyson, 200 Keen, Suzanne, 96, 157, 158, 162 Hanebrink, Julia, 114 Kelly, Adam, vii, 70 Haneke, Michael, 182 Kennedy, J. Gerald, 81–2 Hartley, Daniel, 157, 167 Kenner, Hugh, 226 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 3 Kobre, Michael, 224 Hayes-Brady, Clare, vii Kerouac, Jack, 12 Heaney, Seamus, 182 Kirby, Alan, 154 Heidegger, Martin, 207 Kraft, Kenneth, 10 Hemingway, Ernest, 12, 45 Kunkel, Benjamin, 54 Hillman, James, 191–3, 195–6, 198, 200 Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 5–6 L Homes, A.M., 177 Lake, Christina Bieber, 97 Huebert, David, viii Landy, Joshua, 180 Hume, David, 156 Lasch, Christopher, 91 Hume, Kathryn, 123 Leal, Luis, 122–3, 127 Huxley, Aldous, 47 Lee, Richard, viii, 113, 237 Lestel, Dominique, 112 Leverette, Marc, 206–7, 212 I Levinas, Emmanuel, 207, 209 Indiana Jones, 242 Lincoln, Abraham, ix Isaac, 142 Linnaeus, Carl, 107 Isabel Archer, 50 Lipsyte, Sam, 2, 3 290 INDEX

Lohafer, Susan, v, 84, 86, 193 O Lott, Eric, 62 Oates, Joyce Carol, 177 Lovell, Joel, 115 Oatley, Keith, 194 Lowry, Malcolm, 12 O’Connor, Flannery, vii, 173, 197 Luscher, Robert M., 82, 84, 86 O’Connor, Frank, 121, 130–1 Luther, Martin, 138–40, 143, 146 Odierno, Raymond, 237 The Old Testament, 227, 230 Ono, Yoko, 182 M Orwell, George, 30, 41, 47, McCaffery, Larry, 176 175, 183 McGurl, Mark, 3, 13, 176 Owens, Jill, 81, 91 McSweeney’s, viii Manilow, Barry, 237 Mann, Susan Garland, 81–2 P Mann, Thomas (Tonio Kröger), 51 Pettman, Dominic, 107 Márquez, Gabriel García, Picasso, Pablo, 63 122, 127 Pick, Anat, 110 Marx, Karl, 10 Playboy, 195 Melville, Herman, 2, 48, 93 Poe, Edgar Allan, 80, 125 Mencken, H.L., 176 Pogell, Sarah, 3, 63, 94, Meuter, Norbert, 165, 167 108–9, 177 The Mighty Boosh, 189 Pollak, 176 Milgram, Stanley, 175 Pratt, Mary Louise, 92 Miller, Arthur, 23, 36 Pynchon, Thomas, 154 Mills, Sara, 30 Milton, John, 49 Moore, Fernanda, 33 R Moore, Gillian, vii Rahner, Karl, 146–8 Morris, Desmond, 106 Rancière, Jacques, 176, 184–5 Morrison, Toni, 210 Rand, Ayn, 9 Mulhall, Stephen, 209 Rando, David, 23, 37, 42, 61, 69, 92–3, 163, 178 Richardson, Miles, 114 N Roh, Franz, 122–3 Nabokov, Vladimir, v Romero, George A., 207, 211 Nelson, Maggie, 175–6, 182 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 212 Nevins, Allan, 80 The New Yorker, vi, 12, 32, 33, 190, 195, 200, 238, 241 S Ngai, Sianne, 178 St. Paul, 139, 143, 146 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 175, 205, Saturday Night Live, 33 210, 213 Saunders, George (Works) INDEX 291

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS: “Puppy,” 144, 175, 233 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories “Sea Oak,” viii, 6–7, 92, 178, 182, 205–15 and a Novella, vi, 11, 24, 31, 33, “The Semplica Girl Diaries,” vii, viii, 49, 60, 84, 174 4, 13, 31, 60–73, 77, 83, 90, 95, In Persuasion Nation: Stories, vi, 24, 105, 163, 189–202, 237–38 31, 34, 83–84 “Tenth of December,” 14, 25, 159, Pastoralia: Stories, vi, 24, 28, 31, 49, 161, 237–39 83, 92, 160, 233 “Two-Minute Note to the Future” Tenth of December: Stories, vi, 13, (see also Chipotle Mexican Grill), 24–25, 27, 31, 36–7, 43, 60, 68, 70–71 77, 79–80, 83–84, 95, 97–98, “Victory Lap,” vii, 13, 36, 174–75, 200, 221, 233, 238 159, 164–66, 167, 180, 221–33, 241 “The Wavemaker Falters,” 12, 124–5 INDIVIDUAL STORIES: “Winky,” 8, 31 “The Barber’s Unhappiness,” 232–33 “Bounty,” vii, 60–69 “Brad Carrigan, American,” viii, Other Fiction: 140–45, 150, 205–15, 242 The Brief and Frightening Reign of “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” 106, Phil, vi, vii, 10, 24–6, 31, 34 121, 129–32, 175, 232 Four Institutional Monologues, viii, “CommComm,” 128–29 77–104 “A Design Proposal,” 84, 87–8, 97 Lincoln in the Bardo, vi, ix, 243 “The End of FIRPO in the World,” The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, vi, 9 159, 233 “Escape from Spiderhead,” vii, 6, 25, 43–54, 105, 159, 175, 181 Non-Fiction: “Exhortation,” 3, 78, 83–4, 86, 93, The Braindead Megaphone: Essays (also 97–8 published as The Brain-Dead “The Falls,” vii, 43–54, 159–62, 164, Megaphone: Essays), vi, 24, 33–4, 167, 233 60, 81, 153, 177 “The 400-Pound CEO,” 7, 137–41, “The Braindead Megaphone” (also 163, 173 published as “The Brain-Dead “A Friendly Reminder,” 78, 84, 88–9, Megaphone”), 24, 29, 113, 177, 94, 97–8 232–33 “Home,” 78–9, 94, 98 “Buddha Boy,” 191 “I CAN SPEAK!TM,” vii, 34 Congratulations, By the Way: Some “In Persuasion Nation,” 32 Thoughts on Kindness, 8, 153–54, “Isabelle,” viii, 143–45, 150, 159 174 “Jon,” viii, 5–6, 146–49 “Manifesto: A Press Release from “My Chivalric Fiasco,” 163 PRKA,” 180 “93990,” 79–83, 89–91, 94, 98 “Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra,” 179 “Pastoralia,” 4, 6, 30, 105–15, “The New Mecca,” 122, 132, 201 163, 238 “Nostalgia,” 177 292 INDEX

Scarry, Elaine, 214 Twain, Mark (Adventures of Schor, Juliet, 5 Huckleberry Finn), 8 Shakespeare, William, 242 Tzu, Lao, 9 Silverblatt, Michael, 177–8, 183 Sloterdijk, Peter, 207, 209 V Smith, Adam, 156 Van den Akker, Peter, 168 Smith, Rachel Greenwald, Verlaine, Paul, 46 10, 14 Vermeulen, Timotheus, 168 Smith, Zadie, 41, 54, 174 Vitruvius, 196 Society for the Study of the Short Vonnegut, Kurt, vii, 81, 154, 210 Story, vi Spicer, André, 174 Spivak, Gayatri, 157 W Stalin, Joseph, 84 Wakeham, Pauline, 108 Star Wars, 242 Wallace, David Foster, vii, 2, 3, 27, 54, Steiner, George, 212 154, 174, 176–8 Stengel, Casey, 211 Wallace, Naomi, 10 Swift, Jonathan, 242 Ward, Andy, 191, 238 Syracuse University, v, vi, 1, 8, Whitehead, Colson, 54 12, 153, 174 Whitman, Walt, 72 Wilder, Thornton (Our Town), ix Williams, Tenessee, 210 T Wilson, Cameron, vii Teuton, Sean, 108 Winfrey, Oprah, 70 The Three Stooges, 240–1 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 212 Thurber, James, 241 Wolff, Tobias, v Tillich, Paul, 140, 144–5, 149 Wong, Kate, 114 Todorov, Tzvetan, 124 Woolf, Virginia (Clarissa Dalloway), 50 Tolkien, J.R.R. (The Lord of the Rings), 86 Tolstoy, Leo, 214–15 Y Tracy, David, 144, 145 Yeats, W.B., 189 Treisman, Deborah, 179–80, 184, Yu, Charles, 222 190, 237–8 Trilling, Lionel, 43 Trump, Donald, 26, 95 Z Trussler, Michael, viii Zamora, Lois Parkinson, 132