A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

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

George Saunders

432 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

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For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and hi...

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informative 93%
reflective 72%
inspiring 59%
challenging 43%
funny 34%
hopeful 13%
emotional 11%
lighthearted 9%
adventurous 5%
relaxing 5%
dark 1%
sad 1%

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