George Saunders Reads “Thursday”

The author reads his story from the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine.
A photo illustration of George Saunders.
Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Zach Krahmer / Courtesy Penguin Random House

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George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Booker Prize, in 2017, for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” which came out last year.