Articles matching 'gordon lish'

...and, most intriguing of all, original versions of some of the Carver stories that were rather heavily edited by Gordon Lish before publication. Even in their truncated form, those stories...

In this article: Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Library of America, and San Francisco Chronicle

...alcoholism on his work. Certainly, it had a huge impact on his relationship with his most famous editor, Gordon Lish, self-dubbed Captain Fiction, who first met Carver in the Bay Area...

In this article: Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Gordon Lish, Washington state, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Esquire

...crushing the spirits of writers whose only noble intention is to follow their muse. But even by those standards, Gordon Lish, in his dealings with revered short-story writer Raymond...

In this article: Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, Cathedral, Neighbors, Library of America, Best interests, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Viewfinder

...the better in his life. But he didn't even mention the existence of an editor, let alone the name of Gordon Lish. By the time of his death, Carver had become a hero of American letters,...

In this article: Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, Ezra Pound, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral, Tess Gallagher, God, Amputation, and Lung cancer

...Vintage this week), the paring-down and taking-out in Carver's stories was done by his editor and friend Gordon Lish. The endnotes to Beginners, a reconstructed version of What We Talk...

In this article: Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, Don DeLillo, Where I'm Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Esquire, Tess Gallagher, Knopf, and Vintage

...first drafts have recently been brought out, and the rational response to them must be that his editor, Gordon Lish, who often cut a story by two-thirds, knew what he was about. Pop...

In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Taylor, The Original of Laura, Conrad Shawcross, Transparent Things, London, and Raymond Carver

...in their original published form they had been ruthlessly and transformatively pruned by Carver's editor, Gordon Lish, they appear here, with the approval of Carver's widow, Tess...

In this article: Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Teleology, and Tess Gallagher

...GBP16.99) By CLAIRE ALLFREE - Thursday, October 15, 2009 What power an editor? Quite a lot in the case of Gordon Lish, who famously reduced Raymond Carver's debut short-story...

In this article: Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, Slash and burn, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Tess Gallagher

...considerable literary legacy. She has long contended that he was not the minimalist writer that his editor, Gordon Lish, made him out to be, and she wanted to publish unedited...

In this article: Tess Gallagher, Cancer, Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, Alzheimer's, Port Angeles, Ireland, and Boston terrier

...has held sway. Now, some of his suffering seems to have arisen from his relationship with his editor, Gordon Lish; and the way that his work is remembered (and taught) owes a greater...

In this article: Raymond Carver, William Shakespeare, Evelyn Waugh, Gordon Lish, Bankruptcy, Hamlet, Macbeth, Homer, and Alzheimer's disease