A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN

In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching fo r twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program.Paired with stories by Ch ekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches each of these stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how nar...[Read more]