George Saunders on Vigil

Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders joins Tom’s Book Club to talk about his new novel Vigil and his long-standing fascination with the space between life and death.In this extended conversation, Saunders discusses writing Vigil, a novel that follows the final hours of KJ Boone, a powerful oil tycoon and architect of climate-change denial, as he’s visited by a series of ghosts. The conversation also touches on storytelling, the pressure that comes with success, and the role music has played in his writing life.George Saunders is the author of Lincoln in the Bardo (winner of the Booker Prize), Tenth of December, and Liberation Day, and teaches creative writing at Syracuse University.Vigil is out now in hardback. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.