Showing posts with label Raymond Carver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raymond Carver. Show all posts
Friday, January 24, 2014

Samar Farah Fitzgerald's "Where Do You Go?" and Rolf Yngve's "The Quail"--also Raymond Carver's "Why Don't You Dance?"

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One of the stories in the 2013 O. Henry Prize Stories that intrigued me, but that I did not have a chance to discuss in December, is Sama...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

T. C. Boyle’s “Birnam Wood, “Raymond Carver’s “Chef’s House,” and Ian McEwan’s “First Love, Last Rites”—Memory Piece vs. Meaningful Story

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In his brief  “This Week in Fiction” chat with New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman ( http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Biographies and The Author's Real Life: J.D. Salinger, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro

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I don’t often read author biographies unless I have a special reason for doing so. Last year when I was working on a book on Flannery O’Conn...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Twelve Short Story Gift or Wish List Suggestions for the Twelve Days of Christmas

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If you love the short story and celebrate Christmas by exchanging gifts, then what better gift to give than a truly great collection of stor...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Carver's Collected Stories and the Gordon Lish Controversy

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The recent release by Library of America of Raymond Carver’s Collected Stories has once more raised the issue of just how much of Carver’s ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Reading Like a Writer, Reading Like an Editor

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The July 20th issue of The New Yorker includes three letters about Louis Menand’s “Critic at Large” piece on the rise of creative writing...
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