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  1. UPDATE: The spare ticket is taken! Thx for your boosts, all.

    Late notice: would anyone out here in the North Texas Fediverse like to join me tomorrow night for the George Saunders Interview at the DMA Arts & Letters Live? My wife can't go and it's a sold out event. 📚 ✨ 🎟️

    dma.org/programs/event/arts-le

    Boosts welcome!

    #Dallas #GeorgeSaunders #KrysBoyd #Vigil #Bookstodon #KERA #Texas #Books

  2. A memorable commencement speech full of heart and wisdom from 2013 by author George Saunders, professor of English and author of Lincoln In The Bardo.

    #StayHuman

    youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&

    #GeorgeSaunders #Commencement #Humanity #Authors #Writers #Wisdom #Inspiration

  3. "Words only ever do so much. But, time and again, Saunders’s words reveal their utility. They insist on our dignity, however and wherever they find us." Brendan Fitzgerald rounds up some essential George Saunders nonfiction, along with a few must-read interviews longreads.com/2026/01/27/georg #longreads #nowreading #lists #GeorgeSaunders

  4. How to Be an Instrument of Kindness in a Harsh World: George Saunders on Unthinking the Mind, Unstorying the Self, and the 3 Antidotes to Your Suffering

    web.brid.gy/r/https://www.them

  5. 47 is yammering about erecting a couple of poles. Instead of listening to his nonsense, read George Saunders's amazing flash fiction piece, "Sticks," which is about a man and his pole.

    unm.edu/~gmartin/535/Sticks.ht

    #GeorgeSaunders
    #literature

  6. Dance while we can

    Yes, guilty, are happy. Today, lost none of our number. All still here. Will not be here forever. But all here now.

    ~ George Saunders, from The Moron Factory

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    This short story is written in a style that feels like text messaging. However, do not let that make you miss reading it.

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    #GeorgeSaunders #MementoMori

  7. C’è un equivoco, in ciascuno di noi, anzi, una malattia: l’egoismo. Ma esiste anche una cura.
    Siate dei pazienti di voi stessi, bravi, propositivi, anche un po’ disperati – cercate le medicine antiegoismo più efficaci, cercatele con energia, finché vivrete. Scoprite cosa vi rende più gentili ..
    cctm.website/legoismo-e-inutil

    George Saunders

    #georgesaunders #gentilezza #cctmwebsite #anoipiaceleggere #leggere

  8. ‪Marcus Reynolds‬ ‪@marcusbs.bsky.social‬
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    Join the People Reluctant To Kill for an Abstraction (#PRKA)

    #GeorgeSaunders

    #SLATE

    The vibes have gotten awfully grim out there

    slate.com/articles/news_and_po

  9. Ik luister regelmatig BoekenFM maar toen de Miranda July aflevering net goed en wel was begonnen, zette ik deze uit. Tampons en menopauze? Nope, not for me. Dacht ik.

    Een tijdje later hadden we een feestje, en een deel van de boekenclub was over dit boek aan het praten. Ik haakte aan. Over welk boek hebben jullie het? Oh dat boek weer, nope not for me. Dacht ik.

    Toch bleef ik dit boek maar […]

    https://janvandenberg.blog/all-fours-miranda-july/

    #AllFours #Boekenclub #GeorgeSaunders #MirandaJuly #Podcast

  10. Dat George Saunders kan schrijven over schrijven weten we door A Swim in a Pond in the Rain:

    https://janvandenberg.blog/a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-george-saunders

    En dat Saunders zelf ook kan schrijven, werd na dit weekend extra onderstreept toen ik de verhalenbundel Tenth of December las.

    Stijl

    Saunders heeft een eigen, kenmerkende […]

    https://janvandenberg.blog/george-saunders-tenth-of-december/