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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

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