The Writer’s Bookshelf
As you find your path as a writer, there may be no better support than the wisdom of your fellow travelers. Let these twelve recent and forthcoming books by some of contemporary literature’s most insightful and generous luminaries guide you on your way.
“What did we feel and where did we feel it?” These questions animate the close readings in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Bloomsbury, 2021) by George Saunders. Grounded in his trademark humanity and generosity of spirit, Saunders makes devoted study of seven classic Russian short stories that illuminate something vital about the form,
