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January 6, 2026 - George Saunders, "Fight for America!" and Matthew Shifrin
Bestselling author George Saunders joins The Culture Show to talk about his forthcoming novel “Vigil.” Set over a single night, the book follows Jill “Doll” Blaine, a long-deceased guardian figure who keeps watch over a dying oil executive, returning Saunders to the moral and metaphysical terrain familiar from “Lincoln in the Bardo.” “Vigil” is out January 27, with a Harvard Book Store event on January 29 at the Back Bay Events Center; to learn more go here.
“Fight for America!” is a large-scale interactive simulation that revisits the events of January 6, 2021. Produced by the american…
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