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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
George Saunders' CivilWarLand in Bad Decline is $1.99 at Amazon.
They read one of Saunders' stories (My Famboyant Grandson) on the New Yorker podcast and it was the best story I'd heard on there. I picked up the collection it is in (In Persuasion Nation). His stories could be classified as science fiction, I guess. But they are more literary stories that take place in a world that is darkly, preposterously exaggerated.
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Two of the best books I've read in the past couple of years were his
Tenth of December and
Lincoln in the Bardo (which made my top-ten list last year).