A master of modern fiction, Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders sits down with Paul Holdengräber, the revered interviewer who George has called “one of the most brilliant minds in America, or anywhere”, to share insights into his life and genre-bending body of work, and discuss the state of contemporary literature and it's relationship to empathy, politics and power.

<p>A master of modern fiction, Man Booker Prize winner&nbsp;George Saunders&nbsp;sits down with&nbsp;Paul Holdengr&auml;ber,&nbsp;the revered interviewer who George has called &ldquo;one of the most brilliant minds in America, or anywhere&rdquo;, to share insights into his life and genre-bending body of work, and discuss the state of contemporary literature and it's relationship to empathy, politics and power.</p>

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