What's it like to write your first novel after decades of writing short stories?

George Saunders will be here to talk about his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.

So I kept saying this, if I dropped dead while I'm writing this book, no doubt the next

thing that happens is going to be really awkward and surprising.

Why does time zip right by and then go so slow?

Alan Burtick will be here to tell us about his book, Why Time Flies?

There was this other kind of time in me enabling me to perceive the world as I do and I just

didn't know what that was really.

And I wanted to find out, you know, really is there a difference between the kind of time

that's in me and the time that's out there?

Plus Maria Russo, our children's books editor will be here to talk about the 150th anniversary

of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the legacy of her little house on the Prairie Books.

And we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

George Saunders joins us now.

He is the author of many short story collections, including most recently 10th of December, which

was one of our 10 best books of the year.

And now he has a novel called Lincoln in the Bardot.

George, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for asking me, Pamela.

I think the first question on most people's minds when they hear the title of this novel

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