Tenth of December
George Saunders · 2013
Story Prize winner, 2013. Saunders's dystopian corporate America stories achieve something rare: genuine political satire that also breaks your heart. He is widely considered the finest American short story writer currently working.
The case against
Saunders writes every consciousness in the same damaged vernacular: the Spiderhead prisoner, the Semplica-Girl dad, the lovestruck teens of "Victory Lap," all thinking in exclamation-pointed corporate patois. The machinery of uplift is visible too; stories bend toward a redemptive swerve you can set your watch by. He is the kindest satirist alive, and kindness, administered this reliably, starts to feel like a product feature.
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