HPPR Radio Readers Book Club

Greetings from Goodwell, Oklahoma! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for our new 2025 Fall Read. Voracious readers might well be those that most appreciate when an author provides us with a truly fresh approach to the novel. In his Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders has conjured a multi-layered work of unique voice, structure, and theme.

For High Plains Public Radio’s Readers Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we’re talking about the book Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. This book was Saunders’ first book, and it was a New York Times bestseller.

Hi, my name is Chris Hudson and I’m an English professor at Amarillo College. I’d like to welcome you to the Fall Radio Readers Book Club. I’m here to talk to you again about George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo.

Hi, everyone. This is Mildred Rugger from Canyon, Texas, for the 2025 Fall Read of HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. In Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders creatively explores the ideas of what happens after death and of the connection between those who have died and those who still live. He’s not the first to do so, nor will he be the last.

Hello, this is Ryan Brooks, an English professor from Canyon, Texas. I’m on your airwaves today to discuss George Saunders’ comic 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo, for HPPR’s Radio Readers Book Club.The book is set on one night in 1862, in a Washington, D.C., cemetery teeming with ghosts who refuse to acknowledge they are ghosts.

Hi, my name is Chris Hudson and I’m an English professor at Amarillo College. I’d like to welcome you to this year’s Fall Radio Readers Book Club. I’ll be talking to you about George Saunders’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Let me start with a bit of my history with George Saunders.

“We have loved each other well, dear Willie, but now, for reasons we cannot understand, that bond has been broken. But our bond can never be broken. As long as I live, you will always be with me, child.” ― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

From the epic grief of ancient Greek tragedies to the intimate portrayals in contemporary memoirs, literature offers a rich tapestry of loss and mourning. These stories not only reflect our own experiences with grief but also offer insights into the diverse ways that individuals cope with loss.

Admittedly, one of the main reasons I read is to expand my world, to understand the lives and perspectives of others – of those younger, of those with the wisdom that comes with age, of those who grew up in circumstances different from mine or spoke the languages of cultures different from my rural, midwestern family’s. I’m Kathleen Holt preparing to talk about grief, which I, like all of us, have experienced many times.

I’m Julie A. Sellers for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club, and today, I’m reviewing The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. This epistolary novel relates the story of seventy-three-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp through letters, notes, and emails that she sends and receives to and from a variety of people