![]() He has picked these particular stories because they offer a means of talking about “the short story form itself” (10). He has long taught the stories as a graduate writing instructor at Syracuse University “or a young writer, reading the Russian stories of this period is akin to a young composer studying Bach” (10). ![]() “We Begin” describes how Saunders came to these stories, what he has learned from them and what he hopes to teach the reader. The book is framed by two essays by Saunders. ![]() The stories are followed by Saunders's commentary, analyzing the stories and offering related advice for writers. He has published five short story collections, a collection of essays entitled The Braindead Megaphone, and a novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2017.Ī Swim in the Pond in the Rain discusses eight stories by four 19th century Russian writers: three by Anton Chekhov, two by Nikolai Gogol, and one each by Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. ![]() George Saunders is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. ![]()
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