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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.
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“For the last twenty years, at Syracuse University, I've been teaching a class in the ninteteenth-century Russian short story in translation.”
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer. He is best known for his short stories and his novel *Lincoln in the Bardo* (2017), which won the Booker Prize. Saunders' short stories have been published as several collections, including *CivilWarLand in Bad Decline* (1996) and *Tenth of December: Stories* (2013).
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