George Saunders has recently released his four series of short stories titled "Tenth of December" which deals with topics like absurdism and ventriloquism.

George Saunders has been known worldwide for his short stories that won him awards like the MacArthur "genius grant". He recently released his fourth book titled "Tenth of December", which according to "The New York Times Magazine" is "best book you'll read all year."

The author told Jacki Lyden, host of weekends on "All Things Considered" that he finds writing short stories and the challenge that comes with it irresistible. Initially he had planned to write only a few short stories and then planned to move on to writing novels but now is "hooked" on to writing short stories.

"I just find it so beautiful, and I have not figured it out yet," Saunders says. "It's just a deep, deep well. When you get it right, it can be such a beautiful explosion of submerged meaning."

Revealing how he finds voices for the characters in his books, Saunders says he does something he calls a "third-person ventriloquist." He says while he thinks as a third person he automatically becomes them.

So what keeps Saunders going? He says he loves returning to his writing shed with the feeling of which scene he's going to write that day and that one tiny detail that makes everything fall into places and brightens up his writing for the day.

""If somebody gave you a furnished apartment that they had furnished, your first impression would be, 'Well, thanks, but this doesn't feel like me.' But then if you were allowed to replace one item every day for seven years with an item that you liked better, after seven years that place would have you all over it in ways that you couldn't anticipate at the beginning. So, likewise in a story, if you're doing hundreds of drafts, and each time you're micro-exerting your taste, that thing is going to look like more and more of you. In fact, I feel like my stories are much more indicative of me than this guy here talking to you or even me on one of my best days. The story's a chance to sort of super-compress whoever you are and present it in this slightly elevated way," says the author.