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The Braindead Megaphone is George Saunders’s first full-length essay collection, published in 2007; it is 272 pages long. The collection has many essays that appeared in The New Yorker and GQ.
Jan 1, 2007 · Often steeped in politics, Saunders’s opening – “The Braindead Megaphone” – is essentially a piece railing against the Bush administration, Fox News, and other conservative outfits, while lengthy 34-page follower “The New Mecca” tells of the rise of Dubai in a Brautigan-esque manner by incorporating chapter headings ...
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About The Braindead Megaphone. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
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Sep 4, 2007 · The Braindead Megaphone. George Saunders. Penguin, Sep 4, 2007 - Literary Collections - 272 pages. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in...
Sep 4, 2007 · George Saunders’s Braindead Megaphone uses the fiction author’s trademark ability to, as the Boston Globe puts it, "convert his sorrow about mankind into exquisite comedies of disappointment" and applies it to the sometimes surreal and often discomfiting world around him.
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In the title essay, the Megaphone Guy struts in, sets up his amplified bray, and his listeners find themselves unable to carry on their conversations, forced as they are to adopt his expressions, giving way to his domination, without realizing his sway.
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4.5 180 ratings. See all formats and editions. From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
