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Rae Padilla Francoeur “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life,” By George Saunders. Random House, January 2021. 410 pages. I am reading George Saunders’ “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain in Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life” with 15 other people, mostly on the West Coast, mostly strangers. Our MeetUp group chose this book on a whim while still reading contemporary short stories from collections like Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s “The Best American Short Stories.” Who would have thought that working through Ivan Turgenev’s “The Singers,” written in 1852, would be exhilarating? Good short stories are hard to write and often quite hard to fully appreciate; more so when stylized according to norms that seem archaic to us. A short story is a world unto itself, full of life, or as Saunders says, a ceremony. Central to that ceremony is the heart of the story. Entering a stor

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