Recorded in Santa Fe on April 20th, 2005.

George Saunders, called by The Atlantic Monthly, "the most talented goof-off writing fiction today" has two books of short stories, Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline. He reads here from the stories, "My Guilty Pleasures" and "A Barber's Unhappiness", before joining in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm.

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