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 ...

Raymond Carver once addressed the thin line between fiction and nonfiction by stating: “Everything we write is in some way, autobiographical.” This adage is true of most fiction writers, but it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...