George Saunders

1. “A Job to Do”*: George Saunders on, and at, Work
Kasia Boddy

2. Horning In: Language, Subordination and Freedom in the Short Fiction of George Saunders
Clare Hayes-Brady

3. Language Between Lyricism and Corporatism: George Saunders’s New Sincerity
Adam Kelly

4. “Hope that, in Future, All Is well”: American Exceptionalism and Hopes for Resistance in Two Stories by George Saunders
Gillian Elizabeth Moore

5. Hanging by a Thread in the Homeland: The Four Institutional Monologues of George Saunders
Richard E. Lee

6. Biopolitical Dystopias, Bureaucratic Carnivores, Synthetic Primitives: “Pastoralia” as Human Zoo
David Huebert

7. Ghosts and Theme Parks: The Supernatural and the Artificial in George Saunders’s Short Stories
Dana Del George

8. The Absent Presence of the Deus Absconditus in the Work of George Saunders
Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

9. Narrative Empathy in George Saunders’s Short Fiction
Michael Basseler

10. Cruel Inventions: George Saunders’s Literary Darkenfloxx™
Jurrit Daalder

11. Dreaming and Realizing “The Semplica Girl Diaries”: A Post-Jungian Reading
Steve Gronert Ellerhoff

12. Everyday Zombies: Ethics and the Contemporary in “Sea Oak” and “Brad Carrigan, American”
Michael Trussler

13. “Third-person Ventriloquism”: Microdialogues and Polyphony in George Saunders’s “Victory Lap”
Robert Cameron Wilson

14. “A Little at a Time. And Iteratively”: A Conversation with George Saunders
Steve Gronert Ellerhoff

Keywords: Literature, Contemporary Literature, North American Literature, Fiction