By Laura Dave 7/24/06 12:00am

Promise and Peril Of Fleeing New York- And Coming Back

I was leaving New York for good. At 22—less than a year after arriving in the city—I’d had enough. While many friends were settling into their lives—enjoying the bars and restaurants and new people—I spent that winter falling out of mine. I was in the middle of a painful and never-ending breakup. I was watching Read More

By Regina Marler 4/24/06 12:00am

Sad Sacks in Lock Step, Haunted by Penitent Ghosts

The typical protagonist of a George Saunders story is a sad sack with a humiliating job (often involving a costume), a hot-to-trot wife, a sick child and the threat of a pink slip looming. Cutbacks at work lead to further humiliations. Finally, the wife, the boss or the co-workers insist that the protagonist prove his Read More