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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Nor did it make Hitler and his boys--murders of millions as well, and lovers of literature and music and art--more humane. If the stories’ depth that he argues for were so prima-facie obvious it could preclude the greater value of this book. Those two best versions of us, in a moment of reading, exit our usual selves and, at a location created by mutual respect, become one. Fun to read something that encourages a revisiting of the Russkies (or maybe a visiting for the first time of Saunders' short story collections).

Yes, lecturing is, overall, bad educational practice, but sometimes that bromide doesn't hold water.The Saunders analytic style, so quippy and likable, somehow works perfectly out loud, and slightly less so on the page - but here comes a second confession: I think people who have taken an MFA, or a college writing class, may find less here, just because many of the reveals will be familiar to them. He also appeals to his friends to do good and acknowledges that he is not able of doing it properly which keeps him awake at night. unfailingly, often thrillingly illuminating … Published any time, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain would be a joyous reminder that fiction is “the most effective mode of mind-to-mind communication ever devised”. His thoughts on reading, and he does teach this class in person, and what and why the author uses the words he does.

The stories touch on our encounters with bears, alligators and sharks, among other potentially scary things.Now Saunders has developed as essays some of the thoughts arising from those classes, and put them together into a book alongside the stories he’s discussing – by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol. Por otra parte, si todas las pelotas son atrapadas de la misma manera, la tensión inicial se va perdiendo; el lector espera que cada malabar sea más emocionante, menos previsible que el anterior. It could happen in more intimate settings, too, as in a small class of 20 boxed off in a room looking remarkably like high school classrooms (only with a few tendrils of ivy curling in from the bricks outside the window). Y con cada cambio, reevaluar las consecuencias en la historia de esa palabra que ha aparecido o desaparecido. He talks about the difference between technical skill and true beauty in art and the way this collides in Turgenev's story.