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Gordon Lish edits to Raymond Carver's "what we talk about when we talk about love"

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Raymond Carver, 1984. Photograph © Marion Ettlinger Raymond Carver lives in a large, two-story, wood-shingled house on a quiet street in Syracuse, New York. The front lawn slopes down to the sidewalk. A new Mercedes sits in the driveway. An older VW, the other household car, gets parked on the...

Late Fragment - Raymond Carver Tattoo of "beloved" after marriage

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The editors of the new Library of America edition of Carver's Collected Stories made the decision to include the manuscript version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, the book that established his reputation, under the title Beginners. Beginners is twice as long, and about half as interesting. One can't help but wonder whether the Library of America would be republishing Carver now if it had been this version of the book, and not the one pruned and scoured by his editor, Gordon…

Raymond Carver, At Least

Raymond Carver (1938 - 1988)