A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life mug and the bedrock virtues a

and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster

and even warn each other of impending dangers

By Will Jawando

In the tradition of the best-selling Monet's Table

*An Apple Best Book of the Month*

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life mug and the bedrock virtues aBy George Saunders NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Booker Prizewinning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselvesand our world today. One of the most accurate and beautiful depictions of what it is like to be inside the mind of a writer that Ive ever read.Parul Sehgal, The New York Times In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders