Following this fall’s mini-brouhaha about Raymond Carver’s widow, Tess Gallagher, publishing early versions of Carver’s stories very different from the versions that went through Gordon Lish’s ...

When does an act of reclamation cease to be about restoration and become about something else? That’s the question raised by “Collected Stories,” the Library of America’s new collection of the ...

Granta Books, Author, Michael Ignatieff, Author, Raymond Carver, Author Granta (NY) $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9645611-1-3 Tolstoy's observation that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way finds ...

Confession. The first time I read a Raymond Carver story, I didn't get it. It was so spare, so lacking epiphany. I thought: "Huh?" Which is ironic. Because according to Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life ...

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College has launched a new audio podcast honoring the late poet and short story writer Raymond Carver. Carver lived the last 10 years of his life in Port Angeles and is buried ...

Raymond Carver, whose short stories dominated the last 25 years of 20th-century fiction, has not yet been the subject of a full-scale biography. So we are lucky to have "What It Used To Be Like," a ...

Almost 20 years after his death, the celebrated short story writer Raymond Carver may have another book published – not new material, but rather alternative versions of the stories in the collection ...

It was 20 years ago today that Raymond Carver died from cancer aged just 50. Although his final years were marked by warm attention from the literary establishment, few would have predicted how ...

At first, Carol Sklenicka didn't set out to write a biography of the late American short story master, Raymond Carver, but as in so many of Carver's stories, things just seemed to happen as if they ...

IN HIS ESSAY, On Writing, the gifted American realist Raymond Carver wrote: "Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. It's akin to style, ...

This article originally appeared in the September 1984 issue of Esquire. Carver, who established himself as one of the finest short story writers of his generation in the Seventies—publishing in ...