At HTML Giant, Justin Taylor looks at the work of George Saunders via his short story “Al Roosten”.

Is George Saunders the most radical fiction writer writing in the mainstream today? Or to put it a possibly better way, is Saunders the most mainstream of today’s radical fiction writers?

A damn good piece on a writer whose work sometimes moves me and sometimes frustrates me; in a lot of ways, it clarifies just why his work tends to have that effect on me.