REMINDER: We're hoping to put together 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 25-28, 2023. Share the call for papers widely: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/10/11…

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The deadline to submit is coming soon!

We're looking for just one more paper to round out a second panel on George Saunders; if you'll be in Boston for ALA and are interested with something to share, email me at [email protected]

phoebe bridgers once again demonstrating she has impeccable taste 💘 George Saunders Society

“isn’t that at least part of what we want from a book? To see another human being riffing on this thing called “life on earth” with confidence and playfulness, thereby infusing us with a touch of same as we step out the door?” - George Saunders’s substack continues to delight

George Saunders reflects on his famous convocation address at Syracuse University. youtu.be/kRKX7VoTs_I

We've got a panel set for ALA in Boston this spring. Hope you'll join us!

If you're at American Literature Association in Boston today, join us for our 2:30 pm panel!

New short fiction from Saunders in the New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Saunders on Cormac McCarthy: "when he’s moving through a landscape, he doesn’t forget anything that he’s made. It all comes home in that beautiful language... He’s just 100% alive in his fictive reality." pw.org/content/the_em…

George Saunders to Receive 2023 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction apigateway.agilitypr.com/distributions/…

A well deserved honor for Saunders. Why not celebrate by picking up a collection of interviews with the prize winning author 😉 amazon.com/Conversations-…

New scholarship on George Saunders! Samantha Kiser (Baylor University) is the author of "Allegory, Animality, and Anagogy: Beyond a Moral Interpretation of George Saunders’s 'Escape from Spiderhead'" in Christianity & Literature. muse.jhu.edu/article/910035

After a hiatus in 2024, we're pleased to be returning to the American Literature Association conference in 2025. See the CFP for the George Saunders Society here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/09/28…

The DFW Society is seeking submissions for presentation at the ALA. See the attached for info.

We've extended the deadline to apply for our American Literature Association panel to this Friday, January 17! see call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/09/28… for more

George Saunders is releasing a new novel that takes place in another liminal zone between life and death. Vigil, which will be published on January 27, 2026, follows the deathbed journey and moral accounting of oil company exec K.J. Boone. vulture.com/article/george…