Ask a Bookseller: A master class on writing, reading — and life
Cat Bock of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tenn., recommended a brand-new work of literary criticism by George Saunders with a tempting subtitle indeed: “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life."Saunders is a national bestselling novelist whose many-voiced novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” won the 2017 Mann Booker Prize. He also teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Syracuse University, and this collection is a view into his Russian short story class. The book combines short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol with…
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