Interview: George Saunders, author, Liberation Day
Stories such as Liberation Day, Love Letter and Ghoul seem to represent aspects of the current political climate. Was that something you wished to work through in your writing?Honestly, not really, or not consciously, anyway. My approach is to try to lose control of a story and then see what it wants to tell me. It doesn’t surprise me that politics leached into the stories – it’s very much on my mind these days – but I’ve found that my stories get more interesting if I don’t know, overtly, what it is I’m trying to…