Civilwarland in bad decline review5/22/2023 ![]() I’m not going to argue against it, either. I’m not going to proclaim him the most emulated story writer of that period– the most emulated story writer since Raymond Carver. Now, I’m not going to say that George Saunders is the most influential short story writer of the past decade-plus. ![]() In the fall of 1992, the Kenyon Review published Saunders’ “Civilwarland in Bad Decline.”īy the time the title story of Saunders’ first book was published in the KR he’d already had his first story accepted by the New Yorker it was noted in his bio in that issue. But I’d like to reclaim, in my view, the most important major-journal literary debut in the recent history of the Kenyon Review: My first response: Whoo-hoo! My second: the Kenyon Review frequently touts having published Flannery, Ha Jin, Delmore Schwartz. ![]() ![]() In his post last week, Kenyon Review managing editor Tyler Meier noted that the KR archive is now available on JSTOR–and so we can now do Boolean searches to find stories by Flannery O’Connor, poems by John Ashberry, essays by Lewis Hyde. ![]()
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