243. George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast
David Barr Kirtley
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 243 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. |
| 0:24.7 | Our guest today is George Saunders. |
| 0:26.9 | He's the author of the Short Story Collections Civil Warlands in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, |
| 0:31.7 | in Persuasion Nation, and 10th of December, as well as the |
| 0:34.7 | develas the very persistent gapers of Fripp and the brief and frightening reign of Phil. |
| 0:39.6 | He also writes non-fiction essays for magazines such as GQ and the New Yorker, and many of those essays have been |
| 0:44.8 | collected in his book The Brained Dead Megaphone. |
| 0:47.3 | He teaches creative writing at Syracuse University, and it's won many awards for his writing, |
| 0:51.8 | including the National Book Award, |
| 0:53.4 | the World Fantasy Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. |
| 0:56.6 | And we'll be speaking with him today |
| 0:57.8 | about his first novel, Lincoln and the Bardo. |
| 1:00.5 | And now here's our interview with George Saunders. |
| 1:03.0 | All right, so we're here with George Saunders. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:07.0 | Nice to be here. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay, so I've heard you say that you were, that you initially aspire to be a short story writer, |
| 1:12.0 | which I think is kind of unusual so I was just curious |
| 1:14.5 | why did you want to be a short story writer specifically? Well you know I was I went to |
| 1:19.7 | engineering school at the School of Mines in Colorado so So my training was in geophysics and I had sort of a |
| 1:26.0 | side passion for reading and writing, but I didn't really know much about it. And really, I think |
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