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rep-old-timer t1_jab51jb wrote

Reply to comment by Chad_Abraxas in George Saunders - Too abstract and incoherent? by TheHistoriographer02

I've always thought of him as America's Martin Amis.

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Chad_Abraxas t1_jacnsd5 wrote

I don't know, he seems like significantly less of an asshole than Martin Amis appears to be...

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rep-old-timer t1_jadpuxv wrote

Yeah, George Saunders seems like a nice guy from the interview I heard on the radio. But I'd bet if you asked him he'd say that Amis is a big influence: especially the execution of comic set-pieces. I personally enjoy their similarly clever "verbizing" of nouns and (literally) ironic names of places. people, and products.

BTW, what did Amis do? I'm just a rando who likes to read so I probably miss 99% of the lit world gossip. I am old enough to vaguely remember Larkin being posthumously cancelled which seemed like a tragedy since his poems were so great.

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