![]() ![]() So for me, to read a great story alongside someone like Saunders, is a meditative experience. ![]() I had no idea that Russia had a golden age in literature in the 19th century. I’m not a literature major, I’d probably be farthest from it, writing computer software for a living. I felt like that student, sitting in a literature class, listening to an award-winning writer explain what makes a great story great. After that reading, Saunders was not only convinced of the power of the short story, but also “desperate” about writing better short stories himself.Īnd that’s partly how I felt reading his book. The professor reads three stories, and in doing so, brings Chekhov to life. Saunders didn’t know much about Chekhov then: he thought Chekhov’s stories were “mild” and “voiceless”. His professor, a short-story writer, gave a reading of Chekhov. Close to the end of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders looks back on a class from his graduate school. ![]()
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