Paris Review - Gchatting With George Saunders, Katherine Bernard

Gchatting With George Saunders
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY - Syracuse University faculty member and author George Saunders, from left, author and faculty member Mary Karr, and alumna and novelist Cheryl Strayed celebrate the university's creative writing program, on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, in New York. (Charles Sykes /AP Images for Syracuse University)
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY - Syracuse University faculty member and author George Saunders, from left, author and faculty member Mary Karr, and alumna and novelist Cheryl Strayed celebrate the university's creative writing program, on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, in New York. (Charles Sykes /AP Images for Syracuse University)

On Valentine's Day, George Saunders agreed to Gchat with The Paris Review Daily to discuss his use of the modern vernacular in fiction; his new book, Tenth of December; as well as Nicki Minaj and what is, according to Saunders, one of the great undernarrrated pleasures of living.

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