George Saunders

.- 1 "A Job to Do": George Saunders on, and at, Work.- 2 Horning In: Language, Subordination and Freedom in the Short Fiction of George Saunders.- 3 Language Between Lyricism and Corporatism: George Saunders's New Sincerity.- 4 "Hope that, in future, all is well": American Exceptionalism and Hopes for Resistance in Two Stories by George Saunders.- 5 Hanging by a Thread in the Homeland: The Four Institutional Monologues of George Saunders.- 6 Biopolitical Dystopias, Bureaucratic Carnivores, Synthetic Primitives: "Pastoralia" as Human Zoo.- 7 Ghosts and Theme Parks: The Supernatural and the Artificial in George Saunders's Short Stories.- 8 The Absent Presence of the Deus Absconditus in the Work of George Saunders.- 9 Narrative Empathy in George Saunders's Short Fiction.- 10 Cruel Inventions: George Saunders's Literary Darkenfloxx(TM).- 11 Dreaming and Realizing "The Semplica Girl Diaries": A Post-Jungian Reading.- 12  Everyday Zombies: Ethics and the Contemporary in George Saunders's "Sea Oak" and "Brad Carrigan, American".- 13 "Third Person Ventriloquism": Microdialogues and Polyphony in George Saunders's "Victory Lap".- 14 "A little at a time. And Iteratively": A Conversation with George Saunders.

Philip Coleman is Associate Professor and Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His most recent books are John Berryman's Public Vision: re-locating 'the scene of disorder' (2014), Berryman's Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse (2014), and Critical Insights: David Foster Wallace (2015). He is currently co-editing a volume of John Berryman's letters.
Steve Gronert Ellerhoff completed a PhD in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, in 2014. His thesis was published as Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (2016). He is also the author of a novel, Time's Laughingstocks (2013), a collection of short stories, Tales From the Internet (2015), and other fiction appearing online and in print.