Few academics have written about the American short story writer George Saunders, despite his recent prominence in the national imagination – he’s published several best-sellers (most recently Tenth of December), writes for both New Yorker and GQ-reading audiences, delivered a now-viral commencement address at Syracuse University in 2013, and was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of the same year – and his longstanding regard among literary circles, a “writer’s writer.” Those critics who have written about him usually perpetuate a misconception – so Saunders holds – that he is a satirist, and begin their inquiries assuming in Saunders the sort of monovocal or political qualities associated with the genre.
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