Besides being one of America's most celebrated living authors,
George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject.
In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George
Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker
Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December
provides detailed insight into his own writing process and craft,
alongside nuanced interpretations of his own work. He also delves
into aspects of his biography, including anecdotes from his
childhood and his experiences as both a student and teacher in MFA
programs, as well as reflections on how parenthood affected his
writing, the role of religious belief and practice in his work, and
how he has dealt with his growing popularity and fame. Throughout
this collection, we see him in conversation with former students,
fellow writers, mainstream critics, and literary scholars. In each
instance, Saunders is eager to engage in meaningful dialogue about
what he calls the "big questions of our age." In a number of
interviews, he reflects on the moral and ethical responsibility of
fiction, as well as how his work engages with issues of social and
political commentary. But at the same time, these interviews, like
all of Saunders's best work, are funny, warm, surprising, and wise.
Saunders says he has "always enjoyed doing interviews" in part
because he views "intense, respectful conversation [as], really, an
artform-an exploration of sorts." Readers of this volume will have
the pleasure of joining him in this process of exploration.
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