Clara’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

“It’s hard to get any beauty at all into a story. If and when we do, it might not be the type of beauty we’ve always dreamed of making. But we have to take whatever beauty we can get, however we can get it.”
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If you want a laugh and a thought-provoking short story, go find Saunders’ “The Falls” or “The Mom of Bold Action” (both available from The New Yorker to read or listen to via podcast).