![]() ![]() Tenth of December also reveals some of Saunders’s limitations, the biggest of which is that he seems to write the same few stories again and again. This technique shows in his latest collection Tenth of December, a showcase for Saunders’s estimable verbal prowess and a reminder that he is one of America’s preeminent satirists. ![]() Saunders composes stories syntactically: his themes and plots and characters emerge from the right jangle, the right discordant note that simultaneously pleases and disturbs. “If the sentences are kind of jangly and interesting, then I know how to proceed.” ![]() “For me, the litmus test is always language,” George Saunders told Charlie Rose in a recent interview. Money, With Space Between by John Baldessari ![]()
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