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“George Saunders is a modern master of the short story. ‘Ghoul’ is set in a dystopian theme park, based underground and styled to represent a kind of earthly Hell, and is told through the eyes of an actor playing a ‘Squatting Ghoul.’ What does it mean? Is it an atheist parable? I can’t tell you. What I can tell you is that Saunders’ stories make me laugh, they make me think, and occasionally they make me gasp out loud in horror. He is one of America’s greatest living writers.” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor