An Evening With George Saunders

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The recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius" Award), George Saunders is the author of four collections of short stories, a novella, and a book of essays. The most recent collection is Tenth of December (Random House, 2013), winner of the 2014 Story Prize for short fiction and 2014 Folio Prize, which celebrates the best fiction of our time. Chair of the Judges for the Folio Prize, Lavinia Greenlaw, said, 
“George Saunders’s stories are both artful and profound. Darkly playful, they take us to the edge of some of the most difficult questions of our time and force us to consider what lies behind and beyond them. His subject is the human self under ordinary and extraordinary pressure. His worlds are heightened versions of our own, full of inexorable confrontations from which we are not easily released. Unflinching, delightful, adventurous, compassionate, he is a true original whose work is absolutely of the moment. We have no doubt that these stories will prove only more essential in years to come.” Tenth of December was also nominated for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. 

This year's College of Liberal Arts First Year Experience Common Reading selection is Tenth of December.