![]() It turns out that there are touchy feelings, and serious considerations about the fiction writer’s mission, wrapped up in the question of the short story’s correct place in our aesthetic regime. The genre issue isn’t as innocuous as it might seem. Was the form itself having a moment? Had something about it changed to make this moment possible? ![]() This was no doubt phantasmagoric for Saunders himself, but much of what made it so strange for others was that Saunders is a writer of short stories. You could read the New York Times Magazine calling him, following a tortuous series of qualifiers, “the writer for our time.” You could also buy his book Tenth of December and remarkably, very many did. You could see him being interviewed by Stephen Colbert, Charlie Rose, or George Stephanopoulos, talking about empathy and capitalism while demonstrating the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. ![]() For a few weeks at the start of 2013, George Saunders was the gently puzzled face of American letters. ![]()
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