![]() ![]() By becoming better readers, Saunders argues, we can become better citizens of the world. ![]() In these warm, sublimely specific essays, Saunders’ astounding powers of analysis come into full view, as does his gift for linking art with life. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Saunders has distilled decades of coursework into a lively and profound master class, exploring the mechanics of fiction through seven memorable stories by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Gogol. Saunders-the Booker Prize-winning author of numerous works of fiction, including Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December-has spent over two decades teaching creative writing in Syracuse University’s MFA program, where his most beloved class explores the 19th-century Russian short story in translation. It's perhaps the truest distillation of Saunders' visionary life and work, encapsulating the characteristic generosity and humanity of his artistic outlook. ![]() "The part of the mind that reads a story is also the part that reads the world," George Saunders writes in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. ![]()
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