George Saunders Crafts Aphorism

For Chipotle’s ‘Cultivating Thought’

ONEONTA – National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author George Saunders joins fellow authors Malcolm Gladwell, Toni Morrison and Sheri Fink as part of the Jonathan Safran Foer-curated “Cultivating Thought” series at Chipotle Mexican Grill, which features short stories on the company’s drink cups and take-out bags.

Saunders, an Oneonta resident, writes:  “Hope that, in the future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another”

In 2013, his short story collection “Tenth of December” won the Story Award at the New School and was a finalist for the National Book Award.  In 2006, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a MacArthur Fellow.  He teaches at Syracuse University.