George Saunders Goes to Tent City, U.S.A.

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  10.08.09 | 1:04 PM ET

It’s in Fresno, California, and he lived there this April. Saunders writes on his website:

It was a very moving, sort of scary experience, that had the effect of re-energizing certain tendencies in my fiction and in me as a person, I guess, among these: respect for the real; a distrust of the American capitalist juggernaut; suspicion of my own Pollyannaish tendencies; new enthusiasm for the variety and weirdness of the world.

His 12,000-word piece about it—and an audio slideshow—can be found at GQ.


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