Story Review: Bohemians by George Saunders

The Short Story Station chose George Saunders as our author for April. For that, I chose to read Bohemians, the 11th story from In Persuasion Nation.…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon is the first story that I have read that was written by George Saunders. It was included in My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, an anthology of love stories…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

The setting will take us into a world ruled by consumerism, wherein an advertising facility houses teenagers, whose reality is based on their brain-implanted advertisement chips.…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon is a story about the eponymous youngster who lives within the confines of a marketing research center as a laboratory rat. He, with other trendsetters,…

Story Review: Jon by George Saunders

Jon by George Saunders is one of the short stories included in his collection, In Persuasion Nation. This sci-fi story is set in an advertising research…

Book Review: In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

“What America is, to me, is a guy doesn’t want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a…

Short Stories of the Month: September 2014

Why short stories? Not even short story collections or anthologies but stand-alone, honest-to-goodness short stories. After all, the novel has often been treated as the measure…