The acclaimed author will receive the honor at the 76th National Book Awards in November Pat Martin George Saunders will be awarded the 2025 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author George Saunders poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) NEW ...

“What a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward, acquiring, as I fell, arms, hands, legs, feet, all of which, as usual, became more substantial with each passing second.” So begins “Vigil.” Just ...

The shades are gathering again for George Saunders. In 2017, when the celebrated short-story writer published his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” ghosts and grievers swarmed the Oak Hill Cemetery ...

Prepare to reenter the bardo or something like it: George Saunders is releasing a new novel that takes place in another liminal zone between life and death. Vigil, which Random House will publish on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Vigil" by George Saunders (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket from Random House) George Saunders has an affinity for ...

If Heaven, according to Talking Heads, is the place where nothing ever happens, the Bardo, according to George Saunders, is as jam-packed and frantic as Costco on Black Friday. We Saunders fans have ...

The inimitable George Saunders just wrote a great piece for the New Yorker titled “I Was Ayn Rand’s Lover,” which gets a lot of mileage from the rape scene in The Fountainhead—you know, the scene ...

IN THE FIRST PAGES of George Saunders’s new novel, Vigil, a woman falls through the sky, clothing gradually materializing onto her body. She plunges into the ground, stuck but immediately on a mission ...

NEW YORK — George Saunders’ path from obscurity to acclaim began some 30 years ago, not long after he finished a novel his wife could hardly stand. “I used to think the job of serious fiction was to ...