A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Reader-response criticism
Russian Short stories
Interpretation
short story
Language arts
Writing
Criticism
Reading
LITERARY CRITICISM
Étude et enseignement
Histoire et critique
Literature
Study and teaching
New York Times bestseller
New York Times reviewed
Nonfiction
History and criticism
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 his students have discovered together over the years. P…
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