NP: Saunders//Lincoln

[Smoke Teff]

Friends, I write to recommend GS's new (first pub'd) novel, *Lincoln in the
Bardo*. I had the privilege of learning from him and getting to know him
while he was working on this, so it's been on my horizon for a while, and
it was as impactful a read as I expected it to be. I believe it is great.
Might not jive with all tastes, or maybe it will. I read it in one sitting
and cried a great deal. I don't know how much of the American reading
public has or even how many of you have much of a taste for the kind of
mysticism or even religious thinking inside Contemporary Literary Fiction
you might extract from, say, a Pynchon. I think some people who have been
paying casual/medium attention to Saunders will be a little surprised to
find it here--which makes me wonder how it'll play with his fans. But if
you like his short stuff, and if you like Pynchon, I think you'll find
plenty of overlap (some obv. stylistic/thematic reasons to think of *M&D *along
the way).

Curious to hear what any of you lot think about it.
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