THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

From identity to time, here are the ten brilliant books that turn surface-level chats into unforgettable conversations with ...

There are very notable and public exceptions, such as Raymond Carver’s former editor Gordon Lish. After Lish donated his papers to Indiana University, the extent to which he edited and at times ...

This book is born of the river: it was first written down in ancient Mesopotamia, which means the land between two rivers, using a trimmed river reed as the stylus and wet-river clay tablets as ...

The epitaph on John O’Hara’s Princeton gravestone reads: “Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time, the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional.” Another Irishman, ...

This book is a compilation of Gornick’s critiques of writers such as Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Raymond Carver, and Jean Rhys; in every one, Gornick presents a psychologically precise rendering ...

Raymond Carver, Michael Ignatieff, Granta Books. Granta (NY), $24.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-9645611-1-3 ...

She captioned the carousel, which has pictures of a framed image of a cat surrounded by huge flickering candles, as well as Raymond Carver books, a skull ornament and one of her pals at a party, ...

She captioned the carousel, which has pictures of a framed image of a cat surrounded by huge flickering candles, as well as Raymond Carver books, a skull ornament and one of her pals at a party ...

She captioned the carousel, which consisted snaps of a framed image of a cat surrounded by huge candles, as well as Raymond Carver books, a skull ornament and one of her pals at a party: “Things ...

In the my last post, "Mid-Life Crisis: Wisdom from Raymond Carver, Steinbeck, and More," and throughout the rest of this series, we are exploring John Gardner's notion that fiction offers a "test ...

Elephant By Raymond Carver Vintage, 128pp, $23.95 Beginners By Raymond Carver Vintage, 244pp, $34.95 RAYMOND Carver went straight for the gut. Always.