A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

I'm also inspired by a certain absurdist comic tradition that would include influences like Mark Twain, Daniil Kharms, Groucho Marx, Monty Python, Steve Martin, Jack Handey, etc. I love the way they take on the big topics. I really love Russian writers, especially from the 19th and early 20th Century: Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Babel. Saunders recalled, 'we engaged in three weeks, a Syracuse Creative Writing Program record that, I believe, still stands'. At Syracuse, he met Paula Redick, a fellow writer, whom he married. in creative writing from Syracuse University, where he worked with Tobias Wolff. Like if you put a welder to designing dresses.'

Of his scientific background, Saunders has said, 'any claim I might make to originality in my fiction is really just the result of this odd background: basically, just me working inefficiently, with flawed tools, in a mode I don't have sufficient background to really understand. in geophysical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He spent some of his early twenties working as a roofer in Chicago, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a slaughterhouse knuckle-puller. Damian Catholic School and graduated from Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois. He grew up in Oak Forest, Illinois, near Chicago, attended St. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo ( Bloomsbury Publishing) won the 2017 Booker Prize. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2006, Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story 'CommComm'. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. Ī professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O.

He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to The Guardian's weekend magazine between 20. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ.

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders