How to Proceed with George Saunders

Is loss of literature a political force? Yes, says George Saunders.
In this episode, he talks about Trump, civility and the public discourse of our time. On Kindness and Meanness. On form and revision. Voice, memory and empathy, and of course about the living and the dead.

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

Listen to the episode here:

 

You can read more about George Saunders and his publications here, and more about Linn Ullmann and her publications here.

Also, be sure to check out George Saunders’s two bonus readings:

 

Want more? In this episode, George Saunders and Linn Ullmann talks about:

George Saunders, «George Saunders Goes to Trump Rallies» in the New Yorker

Interview with George Saunders about Lincoln in the Bardo on KCRW

Interview with George Saunders in the Paris Review

George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Anton Chekov

Ivan Turgenev

Nikolai Gogol

Leo Tolstoy

Henrik Ibsen

Ali Smith

Mary Ruefle

Edwidge Danticat

Ernest Hemingway

Flannery O’Connor

The Guess Who, «Share the Land»:

and Santana, «Black Magic Woman»: