Setting George to music
Feb 02, 2020
4 minutes
by RUSSELL BAILLIE
George Saunders has one word for his novella, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, being turned into a musical by, among others, Bret McKenzie, Flight of the Conchord and Muppet music master.
The reason he has only one word, he tells the , via email from his creative writing professor desk at Syracuse University, is that he’s busy adding to the pile of stories in which resides, somewhere near where the pile first started. The pile now teeters and it is topped by , which was his first novel after many years of novellas.
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