In an interview with Los Angeles Review of Books , Saunders was asked to name a contemporary American short story that he considers as “teachable and destined for posterity” as the Russian classics featured in his recently released craft book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain . George Saunders, Josie Tolin, short story month, Sticks, Stories we love Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Save Instapaper Pocket. Luckily, we have George Saunders to guide us. They include everything from ghosts to the sad-sack worlds of the future where everyone is owned by the corporations where they work, which sometimes are medieval theme parks. Fox 8 by George Saunders is a short storee abowt a fox called Fox 8 hoo lurns to Let mee start bi saying that wile reeding this it ocurd to mee that when yoo become famus yoo can doo no rong. George Saunders is an American author widely known for his inventive short stories—and by inventive, I mean honestly, down-right strange. Working as another stand-alone novel by the author George Saunders, it managed to garner an award nomination in 2013 with the National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Quite a few of his lectures were focused on 19th century short stories in translation. George Saunders has been teaching creative writing at Syracuse University in the USA for almost 20 years now. George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed short story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. G eorge Saunders was born in Texas in 1958 and raised in Illinois. If you’re a reader of contemporary American fiction, you’re almost certainly familiar with George Saunders. https://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/george-saunders-short-stories-to-read Novelist George Saunders is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize and many other literary honors, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his book of seven essays about what makes great writing and how readers connect with a page of words. Josie Tolin. What makes a story so powerful it can reach through time to become a classic? Contributor. Showing a clear sense of development from his earlier novels, it manages to provide a new and in-depth story … Josie Tolin is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where she studied English and Spanish.