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