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EPISODE · Feb 2, 2026 · 1H 8M

First Draft - George Saunders (Back Again)

from First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing · host Mitzi Rapkin

George Saunders is the author of twelve books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English, and was a finalist for the Golden Man Booker, in which one Booker winner was selected to represent each decade, from the fifty years since the Prize’s inception. His stories have appeared regularly in The New Yorker since 1992. The short story collection Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2013 (for the best work of fiction in English) and the Story Prize (best short story collection). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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