{"id":17946,"date":"2013-08-09T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=17946"},"modified":"2013-08-10T05:50:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T13:50:31","slug":"read-george-saunders-titular-story-from-his-short-story-collection-tenth-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-08\/read-george-saunders-titular-story-from-his-short-story-collection-tenth-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Read George Saunders’ Titular Story from His Short Story Collection “Tenth of December”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BOOK-superJumbo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We are coming off a bender.\u00a0 A word and image bender.\u00a0 A word bender of brilliance, hilarity, fright, disquietude, and uplift.\u00a0 All in one short story collection.\u00a0 We’ve just feasted on George Saunders’<\/strong> short story collection, Tenth of December<\/strong>, and like many before us (read, for example, The New Yorker’s<\/strong> <\/em>article\u00a0George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You\u2019ll Read This Year<\/strong><\/em> HERE)<\/strong><\/a>, we heartily recommend these awe-inspiring writings to you.\u00a0 Tenth of December<\/strong> may now stand as our favorite of all-time in the genre.\u00a0\u00a0 If you like short stories, or even if you don’t (true confession:\u00a0 not our favorite genre), this book will knock you back and cause you to take stock.\u00a0 These stories are not for the faint of heart (since: life), but your courage and fortitude will be gravely rewarded (if you will).\u00a0 The gravitas is, however, leavened throughout with satire and hilarious wordplay.<\/p>\n

For a sample, you can go over to The New Yorker<\/strong><\/em> HERE<\/strong><\/a> and read the title story (which is simply one of the best short stories we’ve ever read).\u00a0 And if you like it, there’s much more where that came from in Tenth of December<\/strong>.\u00a0 Highly recommended.\u00a0 Excuse us while we head off to purchase every other George Saunders<\/strong> book that’s been published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are coming off a bender.\u00a0 A word and image bender.\u00a0 A word bender of brilliance, hilarity, fright, disquietude, and uplift.\u00a0 All in one short story collection.\u00a0 We’ve just feasted on George Saunders’ short story collection, Tenth of December, and like many before us (read, for example, The New Yorker’s article\u00a0George Saunders Has Written the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t