23 October 2017
George Saunders won the Man Booker prize on Tuesday night, but while he was working on Lincoln in the Bardo, his winning book, he would sometimes stop and ask himself if it really was a novel he was writing. He still sounds a little unsure. "I still, I still ... I mean, it says it is!" he says, pointing to the dustjacket; US tradition dictates that a novel is specified as such on its cover.
