Raymond Carver

This is why Carver has been extolled as a master of "minimalism. " Which is ironic. Because according to Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, by Carol Sklenicka, Carver's own life wasn't minimalist at all. It was stunningly chaotic. Ray - as...

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...obsessives: Tear out copies of the perforated handwritten index cards and assemble the novel the master never completed. Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (Library of America; 1,040 pages; $40). As with the Cheever, not the sunniest of...

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...A Writer's Life," which is not merely a great biography, but often an astute critical assessment of Carver's writing as well. Raymond Carver had a hard, short life. He grew up in Washington state, married his high school sweetheart,...

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...had an indelible influence on late-20th century literature. Carol Sklenicka's superb biography, "Raymond Carver: A Life," tells half the story, and Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (Library of America; 1,040 pages; $40) tells the rest.

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Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. Raymond Carver: Another Kind of Minimalism Posted by Richard Lacayo Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 5:30 pm Actually, the writer Raymond Carver never cared for the...

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...is to follow their muse. But even by those standards, Gordon Lish, in his dealings with revered short-story writer Raymond Carver, seems to have been a particularly evil genius. As Carver made his name in the '70s by using everyday...

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...We Talk About Lame Headlines' via email: Have you noticed how much bloggers and media people like naming their work after Raymond Carver's excellent 1981 short story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?" They do. And...

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...answers in proof before it was printed in the Literary Review (it's since been collected in a book called Conversations with Raymond Carver). Of all my meetings with writers I admired, this was one that I particularly valued. Carver died of...

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Tim Martin relishes a new collection of stories from Raymond Carver, Beginners, which makes clear his valuable relationship with his editor In 1986, two years after the publication of his third collection, Raymond Carver described his...

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