"The Writer & the Editor" with George Saunders & Deborah Treisman

The relationship of a writer and an editor is fascinating and mysterious, and has similarities to the relationship of a student and a teacher. In this master class, writer George Saunders and editor Deborah Treisman will describe their collaboration through various drafts of Saunders’ short story “Ghoul” before it was published in "The New Yorker." George Saunders is the author of eleven books, including "Lincoln in the Bardo," which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English, and was a finalist for the Golden Man Booker, in which one Booker winner was selected to represent each decade, from the fifty years since the Prize’s inception. The audiobook for "Lincoln in the Bardo," which featured a cast of 166 actors, was the 2018 Audie Award for best audiobook. His work has been appearing in "The New Yorker" since 1992. He was born in Amarillo, Texas, and raised in Oak Forest, Illinois. He has a degree in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines and has worked as a geophysical prospector in Indonesia, a roofer in Chicago, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a technical writer in Rochester, New York. He has taught, since 1997, in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. Deborah Treisman has been Fiction Editor at "The New Yorker" since 2002, and is the host of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast.