![]() ![]() Yet who hasn’t felt a twinge of intimidation when approaching Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and Turgenev and Dostoevsky. And the pleasures they've provided! Our debt to them is huge. The great Russian authors of the nineteenth century paved the way for our own modernity, their creative fires stoked by the inequalities of classism, imperial oppression, and the conundrums of love and morality. ![]() What follows is a review of the book by Hamilton Cain, and then an interview with the author, conducted by O's Books Editor, Leigh Haber. But today, instead of a new story, we're celebrating one of the masters of the craft, George Saunders, and his ode to the form, A Swim in the Pond in the Rain. On some special Sundays, we offer readers "Sunday Shorts" -original stories by the best short fiction stylists of our time. ![]()
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