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Rio Theatre: George Saunders

February 3, 2026 @ 7:00 pm8:00 pm PST

Go see George Saunders, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, for a discussion about his wise, playful, electric novel Vigil, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next. Vigil is Saunders’s first novel since Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize.

George Saunders will be in conversation with bestselling author Parini Shroff (The Bandit Queens).

Ticket price includes the event attendance plus a signed hardcover edition of the book.



February 3, 2026 @ 7:00 pm8:00 pm PST
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