The Braindead Megaphone
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The Braindead Megaphone is George Saunders’s first full-length essay collection, published in 2007; it is 272 pages long. The collection has many essays that appeared in The New Yorker and GQ.
Contents
- "The Braindead Megaphone"
- "The New Mecca" (originally published in GQ)
- "Thank You, Esther Forbes"
- "A Survey of the Literature" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2003)
- "Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra"
- "A Brief Study of the British"
- "Nostalgia" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
- "Ask the Optimist!" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
- "Proclamation," (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
- "Woof: A Plea of Sorts"
- "The Great Divider"
- "Thought Experiment" (originally published as "Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment" in Take My Advice, edited by James L. Harmon, 2002)
- "The Perfect Gerbil: Reading Barthelme's 'The School'"
- "The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 2001.)
- "Buddha Boy" (originally published as "The Incredible Buddha Boy," GQ, 2007).
- "Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA" (originally published on Slate.com, 2004).
External links
- George Saunders Land: Bibliography
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Works by George Saunders
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996, short stories and a novella)
- Pastoralia (2000, short stories and a novella)
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (2000, novella)
- The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (2005, novella)
- In Persuasion Nation (2006, short stories)
- Tenth of December: Stories (2013, short stories)
- Lincoln in the Bardo (2017, novel)
- Liberation Day: Stories (2022, short stories)
- The Braindead Megaphone (2007, essays)
- Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness (2014, commencement address)
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021)
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