The McDonald’s has been occupied by the radical Church of Appropriate Humility. I wake at first light and hike through miles of failing forest and around noon arrive in a village of paranoiacs standing with rifles in the doorways of flapper-era homes.

I dream of Limbo, a tiny room full of dull people eternally discussing their dental work while sipping lukewarm tea. That night I sleep a troubled sleep beside a fetid stream. Using lavish grotesque and generously mocking political correctness and hypocrisy George Saunders thrashes everyday life to pitiful trash, reducing the States to the ridiculous dystopia of dark ages. His favorite charity is a project to educate Tibetan refugee children in Nepal. He conducted a Guest Workshop at the Eastman School of Music, Fall 1995, and was an Adjunct Professor at Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1990-1995 and Adjunct Professor at Siena College, Loudonville, New York in Fall 1989. Petersburg, Russia, Summer 2000), Brown University, Dickinson College, Hobart & William Smith Colleges. He has also been a Visiting Writer at Vermont Studio Center, University of Georgia MayMester Program, University of Denver, University of Texas at Austin, St. He has been an Assistant Professor, Syracuse University Creative Writing Program since 1997. Saunders received an MA with an emphasis in creative writing in 1988.

He has also worked in Sumatra on an oil exploration geophysics crew, as a doorman in Beverly Hills, a roofer in Chicago, a convenience store clerk, a guitarist in a Texas country-and-western band, and a knuckle-puller in a West Texas slaughterhouse.Īfter reading in People magazine about the Master's program at Syracuse University, he applied. He worked at Radian International, an environmental engineering firm in Rochester, NY as a technical writer and geophysical engineer from 1989 to 1996. in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. George Saunders was born Decemand raised on the south side of Chicago.

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