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In Persuasion Nation
Riverhead Books, April 2006.
Visit Riverhead's In Persuasion Nation web site for all sorts of information!
Contents:
"I CAN SPEAK!" (Short story, originally published in The New Yorker, Summer Fiction Issue June 21/28, 1999. Reprinted in fiction anthology Here Lies..., Trip Street Press, March 2000.)
"My Flamboyant Grandson." (Short story, The New Yorker, January 28, 2002.)
"Jon." (Short story, The New Yorker, January 27, 2003.)
"My Amendment." (Essay, The New Yorker, March 8, 2004.)
"The Red Bow." (Short story, Esquire, September 2003. Won the National Magazine Award for Fiction, as part of Esquire's submission. The story was also a finalist for the annual Bram Stoker Award.)
"Christmas." (Essay; originally published as "Chicago Christmas, 1984," The New Yorker, December 22/29, 2003.)
"Adams." (Short story, The New Yorker, August 9/16, 2004.)
"93990" (Short story, McSweeney's, issue 4, 2000, originally published as Part IV of "Four Institutional Monologues")
"Brad Carrigan, American." (Short story, Harper's, March 2005.)
"In Persuasion Nation." (Short story, Harper's, November 2005.)
"Bohemians." (Short story, The New Yorker, January 19, 2004. Included in Best American Short Stories 2005.)
"CommComm." (Short story, The New Yorker, August 1, 2005.)
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A Bee Stung Me, So I Killed All the Fish
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(Notes from the Homeland 2003-2006). A chapbook published online by Riverhead Books to accompany the book In Persuasion Nation. Contents:
"My Guilty Pleasures" (originally published in The New Yorker, February 2, 2003).
"A Survey of the Literature" (originally published in The New Yorker, September 22, 2003).
"Exit Strategy" (originally published in Slate online magazine, May 24, 2004).
"The Food Fundamentalist" (originally published in New York Times magazine, March 13, 2005).
"Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy" (originally published in The New Yorker, Dec.6, 2004).
"Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA" (originally published in Slate online magazine, August 26, 2004).
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
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Riverhead Books, September 2005. Illustrations by Ben Gibson. A short novel.
Visit Riverhead's Reign of Phil web site for outtakes, reviews, an excerpt, and more.
"Why I Wrote Phil," by George Saunders, essay for Amazon.com. Available here.
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip A children's book, illustrated by Lane Smith. Random House/Villard, August 2000. Reprinted by McSweeney's Books, May 2006.
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Pastoralia
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Pastoralia was published by Riverhead Books in 2000. It contains the stories:
"Pastoralia" (O. Henry Award Prize Story 2001; originally published in shorter form in The New Yorker, April 3, 2000)
"Winky" (in The New Yorker July 28,1997; O.Henry Award Prize Story, 1998)
"Sea Oak" (in The New Yorker Dec.28,1998; O. Henry Award Prize Story, 1999)
"The End of FIRPO in the World" (in The New Yorker, May 22, 1998)
"The Barber's Unhappiness" (in The New Yorker December 20, 1999; also collected in the anthology Escape edited by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker)
"The Falls" (in The New Yorker Jan. 22, 1996; O. Henry Award Prize Story, 1997)
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders' first short story collection was CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella (Random House, January, 1996.)
It contains:
"CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (in Kenyon Review, Fall issue 1992)
"Isabelle" (in Indiana Review April 1994; reprinted in Harper's, Sept. 1994)
"The Wavemaker Falters" (in Witness, special issue on American humor, Nov. 1993)
"The 400-Pound CEO" (in Harper's, Feb.1993)
"Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz" (in The New Yorker, Oct.5, 1992)
"Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror" (in Quarterly West, Spring issue 1992)
"Bounty" (Novella originally published in April 1995 Harper's magazine; 1995 National Magazine Award for Fiction)
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Other Short Stories
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"Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband," Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things..., edited by Lemony Snicket, McSweeney's Books, 2005.
"The Big Durn Flood," Conjunctions issue on Dark Laughter, 2001.
"Four Institutional Monologues," McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, February 2000. Printed in the form of a booklet with illustrated cover. Available online in the Summer 2003 issue of the web literary journal The God Particle.
"Sticks," Story Magazine, Winter 1994. Reprinted in Harper's, November 1995. Read it in the "Writings" section on this web site.
"A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room," Northwest Review, XXIV-2/1986, and reprinted in Thirtieth Anniversary Retrospective Issue.
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Other Articles and Essays
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"BORAT: The Memo," The New Yorker, December 4, 2006.
"Proclamation," The New Yorker, August 28, 2006.
"Nostalgia," The New Yorker, April 10, 2006.
"What it Will Take," December 2002, Georgesaundersland.com (see "Writings" link).
"Why Peace?", Written December 2002; Published in Switzerland, February 2003; Included in German anti-war anthology, No War, April 2003. See "Writings" on this web site.
"My Proposal," GeorgeSaundersLand.com, see "Writings" link on this web site.
"Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment," essay in the anthology, Take My Advice. See "Writings" on this web site.
Essay in 25th Anniversary Issue,Quarterly West, Fall 2001.
Introduction to paperback version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Modern Library, October 2001.
"Strip Mind," essay on Charles Schulz for New York Times Magazine, January 2001. Available online.
Essay on Influences (Esther Forbes and Johnny Tremain), The New Yorker, December 25, 2000.
Juror Essay on Mary Gordon appeared in O. Henry Awards Anthology for 2000.
On-Line Diary from St. Petersburg, Russia,Slate Magazine, Summer 2000. Available online. See "Links" on this web site.
On-Line Essay on Los Angeles, Feed Magazine, Summer 2000.
"How We Did It," comic essay on suburbia,
New York Times Magazine, April 9, 2000.
New York Times Magazine, December 8, 1999. "The Times Capsule." Juror and wrote brief piece for section entitled "How to Capture Our Culture: Words."
Brief Review of Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin, SPIN Magazine, February 1997.
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Awards
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"The Red Bow" won the National Magazine Award for Fiction, as part of Esquire's submission, which also included stories by Arthur Miller and Stephen King. The story was also a finalist for the annual Bram Stoker Award.
Harvard Lampoon, Honorary Membership and Good American Satirist Award, March 2002.
Lannen Foundation Fellowship for 2002 (Awarded November 2001).
Selected as one of Entertainment Weekly's "100 Most Creative People in Entertainment," in their July 2001 "It" Issue
O. Henry Award, 2001, for "Pastoralia."
Syracuse University Graduate Teaching Award, 2000.
Pastoralia selected as a New York Times Notable Book for 2000; a San Francisco Chronicle, Wordstock, and Booksense bestseller; a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a Quality Paperback Book Club main selection; selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Top Ten Books of 2000.
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip was a New York Times bestseller; selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Top Ten Books of 2000.
2000 National Magazine Award for Fiction, awarded by American Society of Magazine Editors for "The Barber's Unhappiness."
Chosen as juror/guest essayist for the 2000 O. Henry Awards Collection.
Chosen as one of the Top Twenty Writers Under Forty by The New Yorker in its Summer Fiction Issue for 1999 (20 Writers for the 21st Century: The Future of American Fiction.)
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,listed by Esquire as #2 on list of 20 Essential Books of the 1990s in Summer Fiction Issue 1999.
O. Henry Award, 1999, for 'Sea Oak."
O. Henry Award, 1998, for "Winky."
O. Henry Award, 1997, for "The Falls," (Second Prize).
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline Finalist, 1997 PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline selected as a New York Times Notable Book for 1996; selected by Dallas Morning News as one of the top ten books of 1996.
Selected as one of SPIN Magazine's Ten Favorite Writers for 1996.
1995 National Magazine Award for Fiction, awarded by American Society of Magazine Editors for "Bounty," (Harper's Magazine).
1994 National Magazine Award for Fiction, awarded by American Society of Magazine Editors for "The 400-Pound CEO," (Harper's Magazine).
Syracuse University Fellow (1986-1988).
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Works Adapted from George Saunders Stories
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THEATER:
A play adaptation of "Pastoralia" played Sept. 21 to Oct.9, 2005 at P.S. 122 in New York City, directed by Yehuda Duenyas.
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip was staged as a musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA on March 6-19, 2005. Book and Lyrics by Doug Cooney; Music by David O;
Based on the book by George Saunders; Directed by Corey Madden.
You've Never Done Anything Unforgivable, adaptation of short fiction of George Saunders. First at Yale Cabaret, Yale School of Drama, March 27-29, 2003 and then at Linhart Theater as part of the New York Fringe Festival, August 15-29, 2004, adapted by Matt Humphreys and Brendan Hughes and directed by Hughes.
Caveman Inc., August 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland. Adapted from "Pastoralia" and performed by Kerry Shale.
DRAMATIC READINGS:
New Yorker-sponsored event at The Mint dinner club, Los Angeles. Reading of "The Barber's Unhappiness" by actor Tony Danza.
Amagansett, NY. Reading of "I Can Speak" by actor/writer Buck Henry for Fiction Live, July 12, 2003.
Storyopolis, Beverly Hills, California. Reading of The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by actor Forest Whitaker.
New Yorker-sponsored event at The Mint dinner club, Los Angeles. Reading of "I Can Speak" by actor Martin Mull, 2000.
Symphony Space Reading Series, Santa Monica, California. Reading of "The Falls" by actor Rene Auberjonois, 1996.
DANCE:
The End of FIRPO in the World, June 2001, Hideout Theatre, Austin, Texas. Adapted from the story of the same name and choreographed by Mary Beth Williams. Performed by actor Stephen Gerald and dancer Scott Marlowe. Presented at the Merce Cunningham Dance Festival in New York City in July 2001, and as part of the StageStories program in Chicago.
FILM:
Currently in development is a screenplay for CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, optioned by Ben Stiller who has commissioned Mr. Saunders to write the screenplay.
Mr. Saunders has already completed the screenplay for Joysticks which is based on the story "Sea Oak," to be directed by Keir McFarlane.
ART/PHOTOGRAPHY:
The photographer Tim Carpenter of New York has a series of landscapes called "Pastoralia," inspired in part by George Saunders. Check out his portfolio at pastoralia.net.
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