Ahead of a reading in Houston Feb. 25, Saunders discusses his novel, "Vigil," which takes readers inside the thoughts and choices of an oil and gas tycoon who's on his deathbed reflecting about his ...

Vigil reminded me of what I dislike the most about modern American fiction: it is boring, navel-gazing, and self-serious.

In this second interview, George Saunders delves further into the dark-comic twists and turns of his recent short story collection. (Part 2 of 2) ...

For more than a decade, George Saunders has been the best short-story writer in English — not “one of,” not “arguably,” but the Best. In my favorite stories (“Tenth of December” or “The Falls” or “The ...