From theManBooker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo,a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live A series of luminous, profound and surprising reflections on great stories of Russian literature -including works by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol -Swimming in a Pond in the Rainlifts the curtains on Saunders' famous classes at Syracuse University