One of my bibliography deelies:
- The View from the South Side (Granta)
- [x] The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
- [x] The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
[x] The Braindead Megaphone
edit- "The Braindead Megaphone"
- "The New Mecca"
- "Thank You, Esther Forbes"
- "A Survey of the Literature"
- [x] New Yorker
- "Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra"
- "A Brief Study of the British"
- "Nostalgia"
- [x] New Yorker
- "Ask the Optimist!"
- "Proclamation"
- [x] New Yorker
- "Woof: A Plea of Sorts"
- "The Great Divider"
- "Thought Experiment"
- originally published as "Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment," essay in the anthology, Take My Advice. ed. James L. Harmon, 2002
- "The Perfect Gerbil: Reading Barthelme's 'The School'"
- "The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- (Introduction to paperback version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Modern Library, October 2001.)
- "Buddha Boy"
- (originally published as "The Incredible Buddha Boy," GQ magazine, June 2007)
- "Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA"
- [x] (originally on Slate.com, Aug. 26, 2004).
[x] In Persuasion Nation
edit- "I CAN SPEAK!"
- [x] Short story, originally published in The New Yorker, Summer Fiction Issue June 21/28, 1999.
- Reprinted in fiction anthology Here Lies..., Trip Street Press, March 2000.
- "My Flamboyant Grandson."
- (Short story, The New Yorker, January 28, 2002.)
- "Jon."
- "My Amendment."
- "The Red Bow."
- "Christmas."
- (Essay; originally published as "Chicago Christmas, 1984," The New Yorker, December 22/29, 2003.)
- "Adams."
- "93990"
- (Short story, McSweeney's, issue 4, 2000, originally published as Part IV of "Four Institutional Monologues")
- "Brad Carrigan, American."
- "In Persuasion Nation."
- "Bohemians."
- "CommComm."
- "My Guilty Pleasures"
- "A Survey of the Literature"
- "Exit Strategy"
- "The Food Fundamentalist"
- [x] (originally published in New York Times magazine, March 13, 2005)
- "Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy"
- [x] (originally published in The New Yorker, Dec. 6, 2004)
- "Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA"
Pastoralia
edit- "Pastoralia"
- originally published in shorter form in The New Yorker, April 3, 2000
- "Winky"
- "Sea Oak"
- "The End of FIRPO in the World"
- "The Barber's Unhappiness"
- The New Yorker December 20, 1999
- also collected in the anthology Escape edited by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker
- "The Falls"
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
edit- "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline"
- (in Kenyon Review, Fall issue 1992)
- "Isabelle"
- (in Indiana Review April 1994)
- reprinted in Harper's, Sept. 1994
- "The Wavemaker Falters"
- (in Witness, special issue on American humor, Nov. 1993)
- "The 400-Pound CEO"
- "Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz"
- "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror"
- (in Quarterly West, Spring issue 1992)
- "Bounty"
Uncollected
edit- "Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband," Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things..., edited by Lemony Snicket, McSweeney's Books, 2005.
- "The Big Durn Flood," Conjunctions issue on Dark Laughter, 2001. An outtake from the story "Pastoralia."
- On-Line Essay on Los Angeles, Feed Magazine, Summer 2000.
- "How We Did It," comic essay on suburbia, New York Times Magazine, April 9, 2000.
- New York Times Magazine, December 8, 1999. "The Times Capsule." Juror and wrote brief piece for section entitled "How to Capture Our Culture: Words."
- Brief Review of Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin, SPIN Magazine, February 1997.
- On voting for Kerry (Slate)
- [x] Soviet Deadpan
- [x] Heavy Artillery (New Yorker)
- [x] Victory Lap (New Yorker)
- [x] "Why I Wrote Phil" (Amazon.com)
- [x] Tent City U.S.A.
- [x] "Fox 8" (McSweeney's 33: San Francisco Panorama)
- Bill Clinton, Public Citizen (GQ)
- [x] The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
- [x] interview with Clinton
- [x] The Cats of 9/11
- [x] blog posts
- [x] notes
- [x] Remembering Updike
- [x] appreciation of DFW
- American Psyche
- reprinted as Active Metaphors (Harpers)
- [2]
- [x] "Al Roosten," The New Yorker, February 2, 2009.
- [x] "Puppy," The New Yorker, May 28, 2007. Reprinted in The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith, 2008.
- [x] "Sticks," Story Magazine, Winter 1994.
- [x] "A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room," Northwest Review, XXIV-2/1986, and reprinted in Thirtieth Anniversary Retrospective Issue.
- [x] "My Gal," The New Yorker, Sept.22, 2008.
- [x] "AntiHeroes," The New Yorker, June 23, 2008.
- [x] "Hypocrites," The New Yorker, June 9, 2008.
- [x] "Y'all Torture Me Home," The New Yorker, March 24, 2008.
- [x] "BORAT: The Memo," The New Yorker, December 4, 2006.
- [x] "Black Widows," a poem with apologies to Edward Gorey, The New Yorker, September 26, 2005.
- [x] "Four Institutional Monologues," McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, February 2000. Printed in the form of a booklet with illustrated cover. Available online in the Summer 2003 issue of the web literary journal The God Particle.
- [x] "My Proposal," GeorgeSaundersLand.com
- [x] "What it Will Take," December 2002, Georgesaundersland.com
- [x] "Why Peace?", Written December 2002; Published in Switzerland, February 2003; Included in German anti-war anthology, No War, April 2003.
- [x] A Rememberance [3]. Essay in 25th Anniversary Issue, Quarterly West, Fall 2001
- [x] "Strip Mind," essay on Charles Schulz for New York Times Magazine, January 2001.
- [x] on the deacon Juror Essay on Mary Gordon appeared in O. Henry Awards Anthology for 2000.
- [x] "The Deacon," The New Yorker, December 22, 1997.
- [x] On-Line Diary from St. Petersburg, Russia, Slate Magazine, Summer 2000
- [x] Eat, Memory: The Absolutely No-Anything Diet (NYTMag)