A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

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If it’s denied an adequate instrument (and we’re all denied that, at birth, some more than others), out`comes. Every story is narrated by someone, and since everyone has a viewpoint, every story is misnarrated (is narrated subjectively). He talks about the difference between technical skill and true beauty in art and the way this collides in Turgenev's story. If rain is a force of unhappiness, the men and women at the end of the story are sheltered from the rain. La cita dice mucho acerca del tono en el que se desarrollan esas clases de escritura para jóvenes que, antes de empezar el curso, ya se encuentran entre los talentos más prometedores de su generación y que, por descontado ya saben escribir, aunque aún no hayan encontrado su voz.

I want to thank you for allowing me to guide you rather bossily through these stories, for letting me show you how I read them, why I love them. It's surprisingly engaging, especially on audio, with narrators like Nick Offerman, Rainn Wilson, Glenn Close, and Renee Elise Goldberry to read you the old stories.

I want to state for the record, that I would like George Saunders to narrate my life (on paper, not in audio). Tolstoy wrote, "If once we admit---be it only for an hour or in some exceptional case---that anything can be more important than a feeling of love for our fellows, then there is no crime which we may not commit with easy minds.

The Darling' proceeds faster, but along similar analysis, showing a more dialed-out view of the rhythm of a story. But nothing doing: the landowner’s a bit useless and ineffective, and anyway Marya’s preoccupied by her problems with the janitor at school, who is rude to her and hits the boys. Mostly we walk around identifying with one set of opinions and assessing the world from that position. What does it mean in a story about the meaning of life that the characters are (more or less) happy in the end?A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible. Ours will need to work differently, not only to distinguish them from the older works but so that they will speak to our time as freshly as these Russian stories spoke to theirs. With his newest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Saunders pretty much publishes the MFA class on writing that he has taught at Syracuse for over twenty years. Reading short stories with George Saunders over my shoulder helping me to appreciate and unpack them is now the only way I want to read short stories?