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George Saunders: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (EBook, 2021, Random House)

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian …

Review of 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain' on 'Storygraph'

Great course

Deep dive into six complex short stories written by renowned Russian writers. There’s a couple, The Nose and The Master and Man, which I didn’t love but found useful for instructor. George has a wonderfully of peeling back the layers and getting to the structure and technical aspects of how the story works in an approachable and non pretentious manner.

This is an example his type of advice that I found encouraging:

“We can reduce all of writing to this: we read a line, have a reaction to it, trust (accept) that reaction, and do something in response, instantaneously, by intuition.”

Happy reading and writing!!!