How Tolstoy and Chekhov schooled George Saunders on life's great lessons

Writer George Saunders on how famous short stories by writers like Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol are like miniature models of the world and how they can teach us to transcend our own limitations. (R)For many years, author George Saunders taught a writing masterclass in upstate New York, in…