One of my favorite writers is guest blogging all week at the Powell's Books website. Enjoy! Also, be sure to enjoy his books. If you have yet to read Mr. Saunders, shame on you. He's one of the most wildly inventive, smartest, funniest, thoughtful writers putting pen to paper these days. His new book, The Braindead Megaphone, is a collection of essays about literature, travel and politics (his first book of non-fiction). I have yet to read it though it's awaiting me at the library. Other great books include The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (an allegorical novella of sorts), In Persuasion Nation and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (both collections of short stories). Read him, my friends, read him.
Also, read Maud Newton's conversation with Saunders about their mutual admiration for one Mark Twain.
Also, he was on Letterman recently.
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