Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: the best American short story writer writing today

George Saunders is a wizard of language, a humanistic cynic with a sardonic eye always cast on American culture, a howlingly absurd humorist, a frighteningly visionary futurist, and the best read around, for someone who wants all their synapses challenged. Why he hasn't been on the cover of Time magazine baffles me, but then, like you see reflected in his work, these are strange strange times.