Raymond Carver

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• Stephen King on Raymond Carver

  
  christopher cocca — Authority: 125
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• Links: Leftovers

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 550
  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: 590
  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: 476
  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: 414
  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: 118
  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: 791
  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: 610
  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: 120
  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: 765
  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: 902
  Raymond Carver in Paris, 1987.
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• Raymond Carver: Another Kind of Minimalism

  
  Looking Around — Authority: 597
  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: 121
  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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• LitRock Songs

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 128
  Issa’s Untidy Hut has long been one of my favourite blogs, serving up some of the finest ‘little’ poems from the Lilliput Review, poetic explorations into the lives and art of poets and of course Issa’s Sunday Service. The Sunday Service features a song which bridges the gap between rock and literature in ...
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• Fuorirotta 2009: i viaggiatori s’incontrano a Udine

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 147
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• Vem a propósito

  
  ma-schamba — Authority: 143
  Raymond Carver, Queres Fazer o Favor de te Calares? (Teorema, 2004, tradução de Carlos Santos). Gente-de-nada em momentos-de-afinal-nada, o esqueleto da angústia. Queres fazer o favor de te calares?, calas-te?jpt
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• Raymond Carver - Stupid

  
  Stupid and Contagious — Authority: 450
    by angelreich Raymond Carver - Stupid Its what the kids nowadays call weed. And it drifts like clouds from his lips. He hopes no one comes along tonight, or calls to ask for help. Help is what hes most short on tonight. A storm thrashes outside. Heavy seas with gale winds from the west. ...
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• Beginners by Raymond Carver: review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Tim Martin relishes a new collection of stories from Raymond Carver Beginners which makes clear his valuable relationship with his editor
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• A trick question for Raymond Carver

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 136
  The master of minimal storytelling loathed experimentation in fiction, but his hated licence to be silly is vital to the life of short stories Speaking at the Manchester Literary Festival, James Lasdun – probably the closest in recent years this country has come to a genuinely great practitioner of the short ...
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