A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life [Book] ONU5_P7YYU00

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prizewinning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselvesand our world today. - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, Book - Page - "[A] worship song to writers and readers."Oprah Daily - For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of trai