The easy part first. If you're already a fan of George Saunders, then I can recommend "Liberation Day" easily. Most of the stories have already been printed in the New Yorker, but there are also three new stories that will let you be current.If you're new to George and are trying to decide whether to try him out or not, that's a little more difficult because it depends on what you're looking for in a story. If you're looking for a straightforward narrative, he isn't going to be to your taste. If you're looking for something a little more quirky and ambiguous, then maybe.I know a bit more about George's working method than most people because I'm a member of his "Story Club" Substack class where he presents a short story by an author he likes and we discuss it. In the course of things, George has also talked extensively about how he works. Although it's a little facile, I liken him to someone who sits down at a Ouija board and waits to see what happens. George doesn't like to know where a story is going when he starts and he frequently just takes a bit of dialog from a character he's not even sure about yet and writes until he runs out of things to say. Many times he'll put a story off to the side for weeks or months until he has something more to say. I believe he told us at one time he had four unfinished stories he was rotating through. He also is hard to pigeonhole into one genre. Many of his stories deal with contemporary life, but he also wanders occasionally into a day-after-tomorrow soft science fiction situation where his protagonist is dealing with a technology or situation he's stuck in and trying to make the best of. George is not a world-builder and frequently/frustratingly you only know as much about the situation as the character knows, not anything about how this situation came about. Although not strictly a First-person writer, many of his stories are narrated by his character and much of the story comes from a stream-of-consciousness dialog, with many of his stories not so much as resolving a situation but simply stopping, leaving you to imagine what happens next. While I'm not sure it works as classical storytelling, there's no denying he's very popular and has both awards and sales to prove it; although I'm not entirely sure that at least part of his popularity is that George is a genuinely nice person with many personal appearances and YouTube videos talking about life and writing, where he's unfailingly polite and thoughtful. I can't say I agree with everything he says, and have told him so, but he's always been willing to listen and reply when he can. It makes it hard to switch hats from being a fan to a critic and say some stories work for me and some don't.So the bottom line is that George Saunders is simply a writer you're going to have to read to find out if you like him. It's not like saying if you like hard-boiled detective stories then you'll love Lee Child or Michael Connelly. George is almost his own genre, and even then you may read one story that does nothing for you while the next story surprises you with its left-field inventiveness. You're just going to have to take a chance and see if he works for you...