George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone: Essays (New York: Riverhead Books, 2007) ("From "The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": "Twain would like this, I think, this continuing struggle to understand his book. We have not had a writer as devoted to seeking out the truth and outing lies. Huck Finn is great book because it tells the truth about the human condition in a way that delights us. It is a great work of our national literature because, more than any book before or since, it locates squarely on our National Dilemma, which is: How can anyone be truly free in a country as violent and stupid as ours? This book still lives because the question does." Id. at 187, 210.).
George Saunders, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005).
George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella (New York: Riverhead Books, 1997).
George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation: Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2007).
George Saunders, Pastoralia: Stories and a Novella (New York: Riverhead Books, 2001).
George Saunders, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, illustrated by Lane Smith (San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2000).
