Raymond Carver

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• Sunday Read: The New York Times‘ Ten Best (US) Books of 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 505
  Read reviews and excerpts/author interviews for each of the NYT’s top ten titles from the USA in 2009: After so many years, and so many lists, you might think the task of choosing the 10 Best Books would get easier. If only. The sublime story collections alone created agonies of indecision. So did the superb ...
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• Carver by Name ...

  
  The Imaginary Museum — Authority: 103
  [ 6 - Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (2009)] The question is, can you over-edit? The exhibit, Beginners , the first draft of the book eventually published as What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), by Raymond Carver. It was a largely academic question until the inclusion of both collections in ...
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• Stephen King on Raymond Carver

  
  christopher cocca — Authority: 119
  A must-read . [IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercocca.wordpress.com&blog=652226&post=2512&subd=christophercocca&ref=&feed=1]
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• Links: Leftovers

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 565
  What foreigners might read to better understand the “ American character .” An author gives up on writing criticism: “I know intimately that the worst novels ever written took more fearlessness, will and soul than the best book reviews ever written.” To buy the time work on a play or another book, Richard ...
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• Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 619
  New York Times: Stephen King on Raymond Carver by Carol Sklenicka and Carvers Collected Stories : King is pro-Maryann Carver (with a fellow AAers disdain for Carvers drunken treatment of his first wife) and acidly anti-Gordon Lish: "Any writer might wonder what he’d do in such a case [as Lishs demand that ...
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• Two drunks walk into a bar

  
  JessicarulestheUniverse — Authority: 475
  They’re Raymond Carver and John Cheever, two masters of the American short story (In the case of Carver we’ll have to read his recently-published Collected Stories, the versions he wrote before Gordon Lish took a cleaver to them), drinking buddies, and spectacularly unhappy men. Stephen King reviews Carol ...
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• NYT – Video: An Interview with Andre Agassi, Podcast: Stephen King on Raymond Carver and the Sarah Palin Roadshow

  
  Book Case — Authority: 115
  Here’s a video from  the New York Times of Andre Agassi in conversation with the Book Review’s editor Sam Tenenhaus. There’s also a podcast featuring Agassi and Stephen King on the recently published biography of Raymond Carver and last but not least there’s a slideshow and video of everyone’s favourite ...
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• Assignment Six: Try Again with Raymond Carver

  
  NoTitles: still thinking — Authority: 114
  So, in college, this teacher I hated assigned me to read and critique “ A Small Good Thing ” by Raymond Carver. I hated the story by default. My reaction to it had nothing to do with the writing and everything to do with the adjunct jerk who assigned it. He spent most of the semester sitting on the edge of his ...
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• Book Review Podcast: Andre Agassi and Stephen King

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 780
  This week: Andre Agassi on his memoir, "Open"; Stephen King on a new biography of the short story writer Raymond Carver; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news.
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• Book Review Podcast: Andre Agassi and Stephen King

  
  Paper Cuts — Authority: 598
  This week: Andre Agassi on his memoir, "Open"; Stephen King on a new biography of the short story writer Raymond Carver; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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• The Short Story & All Things Carver

  
  WEALTH OF IDEAS — Authority: 411
  I am a new-comer to the American short story writer and poet, Raymond Carver, but from the moment I read "Cathedral", I have been hooked. I was drawn to him fist by what he says in " Principles of Short Story ", his 1989 essay, the ease with which he approached short story writing. Ease in the sense that he had to ...
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• “That was a bad generation of men.”

  
  The Awl — Authority: 780
  Stephen King’s review of Raymond Carver’s biography and Collected Stories is a hell of a thing. I am generally of the school that says you separate the art from the artist, but reading this piece made me more than a little uneasy.
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• Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Raymond Carver in Paris, 1987.
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• Raymond Carver: Another Kind of Minimalism

  
  Looking Around — Authority: 561
  Actually, the writer Raymond Carver never cared for the word "Minimalism" as the way to describe his taut, tight-lipped short stories. But that was the term they came to be known by in the late 1970s and 80s, when he was at the height of his influence in American fiction. In this weeks Time [...]
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• “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is far worse than the suffering itself—and no heart has ever suffered when it’s gone in search of its dreams.” ~ Paul Coelho

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 117
  Morning Mist on Lake Mapourika, New Zealand by Richard Palmer (2008) “Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live . . . the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in [...]
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