Good one. Carver is my favorite author, not just because he grew up in my hometown of Yakima WA. But I gotta admit I do love the Gordon Lish edited stories. Fell in love with minimalism when I discovered Carver in the 80s. But also love that he wrote about working class people and he wrote female protagonists. Male writers didnt do that then. Lish and others remade him into some kind of he-man type. Wrong.
Fantastic. Now I have to go read some Raymond Carver.
Good one. Carver is my favorite author, not just because he grew up in my hometown of Yakima WA. But I gotta admit I do love the Gordon Lish edited stories. Fell in love with minimalism when I discovered Carver in the 80s. But also love that he wrote about working class people and he wrote female protagonists. Male writers didnt do that then. Lish and others remade him into some kind of he-man type. Wrong.
You edited Lish! Yur readers want the whole story. I feel I can speak for all of us. Haha.