A.’s Reviews > A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life > Status Update
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Continuing through "Master and Man", just as Vassily Andreiivich loses his way alone. It's interesting that Saunders included this one, which is...so much longer than any other story in this collection.
— May 13, 2021 07:05PM
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Saunders on The Nose. Scaz voices. The game of telephone in dialogue.
— May 18, 2021 09:39PM
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End of The Darling breakdown and afterthought. The hot wheels metaphor, a clue that this entire book is an expansion of Saunders’s essay on Barthelme’s story. The great framework of a good story noticing its own patterns, being alive to itself. “And then something happened that changed everything forever”.
— May 05, 2021 06:19PM
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Done with The Singers and Saunders’s breakdown (not fully convinced). His Afterthought about his writing process is excellent though
— May 01, 2021 07:10PM
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Finishing up In The Cart. One of Chekhov’s gifts is his instinctive ability to introduce variation into his characters.
Saunders talks a lot about how a great story doesn’t include elements just to include them. But IDK has he even read Bolaño
— Apr 27, 2021 02:04PM
Saunders talks a lot about how a great story doesn’t include elements just to include them. But IDK has he even read Bolaño
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And we're off! Basically an MFA seminar on craft. First story -- In the Cart, Chekhov
— Apr 24, 2021 07:15PM
