George Saunders in The New Yorker

George Saunders' remarkable story in this week's The New Yorker (October 15, 2012), "The Semplica-Girl Diaries", disproves the notion that no one reads the fiction in that magazine.

You should go out and get a copy of The New Yorker, if you don't own one already, if for nothing else than the fiction by George Saunders.

His story's a little shop window on the American psyche & soul, a condition that can actually make you laugh and cry at the same time.

We're such simple people really. We like dogs so much, for instance, that we threaten to treat them as equals.