NP: Saunders//Lincoln

[Jade Becker]

Thanks for the recommendation--I just picked up *Tenth of December*; I've
heard a lot of good about Saunders.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Jade Becker
(530) 518-6859
George Fox University | Class of 2017
Writing Consultant, George Fox University Academic Resource Center
*The Crescent*, Editor-in-Chief
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