
Sunday on the Podcast with George Saunders
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The author has been teaching a course on the nineteenth century russian short story at syracuse for 20 years. His new book, "A Swim in a pond in the rain," comes out this week. He says he thinks we live in an era of facile agenda laced with too rapidly disseminated information bursts. The writer's job is to 'surprise yourself' and be truthful about his or her own life - but that doesn't last forever.
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