AltWeeklies Wire
George Saunders's Magazine-Inspired Missionnew
Five years and a few National Magazine Awards later, we have this sparkling new essay collection, The Braindead Megaphone, which sends up a powerful warning flag about what the shouters and screamers of our contemporary mediascape are doing to American culture.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
10-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
George Saunders' Elements of Stylenew
The essays in The Braindead Megaphone are full of optimism and prescriptions for better living -- it's not self-help, but humanity-help: keys to getting on better in the world by getting on better with others.
The Texas Observer |
Josh Rosenblatt |
10-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
George Saunders Talks Fiction, Vonnegut, & Johnny Tremainnew
Saunders is an anthropologist of American culture who issues his findings in terms of crazily inventive fiction.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mean Snacks and Monkey Shitnew
We talk bananas with George Saunders.
L.A. Weekly |
Alec Hanley Bemis |
05-11-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Seedy, Needy, and Neuroticnew
This series of vignettes involves characters in offensive TV commercials who have their dignity and humanity robbed from them in service of the sale.
Dig Boston |
Joe Keohane |
05-10-2006 |
Fiction
George Saunders, Americannew
Saunders gets transposed into his own cracked reality.
New York Press |
Scott Indrisek |
04-27-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
An Abstract 'Animal Farm'
George Saunders' strange political allegory plays out in an even stranger setting.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-01-2005 |
Fiction
