George Saunders is an award-winning, bestselling author as well as a highly regarded creative writing teacher. For the last twenty years, Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In his new book, A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life (Random House HC and ebook, Random House Audio) Saunders blends his writing and professorial skills into an engaging narrative that walks readers through his favorite short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol to demonstrate how great fiction has the ability to move and shape us. Continue reading →