~post by Ben
I’ll admit, the first fifteen minutes after reading this announcement was spent gargling in my excitement, until I realized I don’t live in upstate New York. BUT if you do, a new, half-hour documentary on American short story master, George Saunders, will air tomorrow night, 5/16 at 9:30PM (EST) on WCNY TV. Titled, The Book of Saunders, this production of Syracuse University Electronic Media Communications is sure to be a great feature about a great author from the university which knows him best.
A graduate of Syracuse University and a professor in the Creative Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, George Saunders is author of the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December, Pastoralia, and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; a bestselling children’s book; and an essay collection, The Braindead Megaphone. In 2006, he was awarded the Pen/Malamud…
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