Ahead of a reading in Houston Feb. 25, Saunders discusses his novel, "Vigil," which takes readers inside the thoughts and ...

The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 ...

In his new novel Vigil, George Saunders puts us in the mind of an angel who crashes to earth for the purpose of comforting a ...

Tom Hanks will play Abraham Lincoln in a film adaptation of George Saunders' Booker Prize-winning novel "Lincoln in the Bardo ...

Tom Hanks is set to play Abraham Lincoln in an upcoming film adaptation of Lincoln at the Bardo, the multi-award-winning ...

Symposium founder Dean Nelson reviews ‘Vigil’ and will interview its author, as well as Judy Woodruff and Jamaica Kinkaid, ...

Vigil” opens with ultrawealthy oil executive K.J. Boone unconscious on his deathbed, where he is visited by Jill, an ...

The beloved author said the critique of the novel was ‘as wrong as any’ she’s ever seen.

NEW YORK (AP) — George Saunders' path from obscurity to acclaim began some 30 years ago, not long after he finished a novel his wife could hardly stand. “I used to think the job of serious fiction was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now 67, George Saunders studied geophysics and worked as an engineer before changing lanes to become a writer in his 20s - Dan ...

His second, “Vigil,” out this month, came to him much more quickly.

In his latest novel, George Saunders continues to explore his interest in death and the afterlife. Vigil tells the story of an oil tycoon and climate change denier named K.J. Boone who’s visited by a ...