How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”

WELCOME TO MAN BOOKER PRIZE winner George Saunders’s classroom at Syracuse University. More specifically, to one in the graduate MFA Creative Writing program where he has taught for more than 20 years. During that time, one of his favorite courses has been a study of the 19th-century Russian short story in translation. He taught it […] The post How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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