4/6/2026 update: Due to a personal emergency, George Saunders has had to reschedule his event to Monday, September 28 at 7:30pm.
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Streamed to you live from Town Hall in Seattle. George Saunders!
Vigil, an electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next.
Q&A with Claire Dederer.
George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize, and five collections of stories, including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama as one of his ten favorite books of 2021). Three of Saunders’ books—Pastoralia, Tenth of December, and Lincoln in the Bardo—were chosen for the New York Times’ list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013, he was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.Claire Dederer is the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of three books: Monsters, Love & Trouble, and Poser. Monsters was a New York Times Notable and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and many others. Dederer has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Nation, Vogue, and lots of other publications. She is the recipient of The Chowdhury Prize in Literature, The Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a Lannan Foundation residency. She lives in Seattle with her sweetheart and is the proud mom of two grown-up humans.
Pre-registration for this live streamed event is required. You must have a valid Lopez Library account to register.
REGISTER HERE by September 25.
This series is brought to the community through the support of Friends of the Lopez Island Library.