What Did They Read?

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

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First heard12 September 2026
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Modern Wisdom, 12 September 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 0 min in.

A speaker says they read A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, describing it as nine Russian short stories in which the author interrupts after every passage to explain how to read it. The speaker recalls the author's name uncertainly as 'Sonder.' The book comes up while both speakers discuss the stark, affecting quality of classic Russian literature.

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