A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders-Used Shilpi Somaya Gowda a delicate web of lies

a delicate web of lies obscures the line between the casualties of war and of the heart

and the creation of family

Distraught and desperate

that Faye now finds herself in a police station

even if it means breaking her heart

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders-Used Shilpi Somaya Gowda a delicate web of liesFor 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. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction