and not as a place for permanently imprisoning people without charges in a kafka-esque labyrinth of human despair but more as a terrorist retirement community jihadi meadows. [ laughter ] after all, like our seniors, they wear brightly-colored jumpsuits, they're often on a liquid diet, and we try our best not to think about them. [ laughter ] and who knows, guantanamo bay may even become popular with our own seniors. after all, it's just like florida but with fewer cubans. [ laughter ] we'll be right back. [cheers and applause]éxéx [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest is the author of the short story collection "tenth of december." it's about time somebody novelized the calendar. please welcome george saunders. [cheers and applause] george, good to have you back. >> good to be here steencht it's been five years since you were here. >> too long. >> too long. >> stephen: for the people who don't know, the few people who don't know you are a macarthur grant fellow author of several collections of short stories. you've got a new scheks called "the tenth of dec

complain that we becoming more orwellian with the spawn i surveillance society but we're becoming more kafka esque remember his famous story metamorphosis man turning into a beetle or a cockroach this is what becoming unsexual is all about it's about our collective experience of humans becoming insects or cockroaches drones for the hive that's managed by the queen bee mark zuckerberg nerd or the google guys are various other high tech enabled parasites pulling the paul and m.r. magill nations out through the modem of the internet for their personal gain at the societal loss and in japan of course we've seen monetary lubricant used very generous. for the past twenty something years still the economy is limp the credit markets are bone dry and yet they're going one step they're upping the crazy upbring the lubricant japan may or may not meant quadrillion young coins but it will monetize european debt just when we thought america would be alone in crossing into the monetary twilight zone where so many kenyans and lunatics have gone before and where trillion dollar platinum coins fall from the s

campaign this season and the first in the top sixteen as a hostile ninety four to eighty one against only kafka a team they would have been expected to pete's. especially on their home courts we have we don't put our fourth best effort on disappear you know it's really where. we have you know major league where we have a real material you know some of the best shooters are really so we have to leave detours especially t.v. shows to let you know we have here but all is not lost for say this crowd they are still in a strong position to me because of finals and because the opera is a former you're a league all-star defenseman has continuity within the team is kane like this is the main problem because it cannot be simply six seven eight nine games will and when and then lose to a team who we can be busy at home it's going to take time for a serious car to reach the heights of previous seasons especially in the last very talisman given young however they have one of the best coaches in european basketball who knows how to win and he'll be set on trying to guide the army men to yet another final fou