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Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A surprising amount of visitors to Boswell have books coming out. Sometimes I hear from them closer to pub date and sometimes I don't. Last summer, Carol Sklenicka stopped by to say that she had written a book on Raymond Carver that would be coming out at the end of the year. She had some connections to Milwaukee and might I be interested in doing an event? So now we have an event scheduled,...
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The Real Paul Jones (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Stephen King reviews a biography and a new, yet another new, collected stories by Raymond Carver in last Sunday’s NYTimes Book Review. As with all reviews of Carver, the twin stories are Carver’s mostly alcoholic life and his relationship with heavy-handed — or creatively instructive — editor Gordon Lish. Everyone agrees. Carver’s alcoholism...
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Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Mornings are my best time and I enjoy my time at the machine. But later on... ------------------Raymond Carver/Stephen King I want to recommend a fine review Stephen King published in the NY Times yesterday about the new biography of Raymond Carver. King at his best. "By STEPHEN KING Published: November 19, 2009 Raymond Carver, surely the most influential...
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Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories - Review - NYTimes.com Here is a sample, but please read the whole thing. The bits about how his editor mangled (or improved) his work are shocking. Fun fact: Did you know that once during an alcohol-fueled rage Carver opened his wife's jugular with a broken wine bottle? And until mid-1977, Raymond Carver was out of control....
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Raymond Carver A Writer's Life By Carol Sklenicka (Scribner; 578 pages; $35) Raymond Carver's life, as related in the exhaustive and definitive new biography by Carol Sklenicka, reads like a Raymond Carver story. That isn't merely a facile observation about a...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Raymond Carver's sometimes troubled life yielded an incredible trove of genre-busting fiction that not only stands on its own but also had an indelible influence on late-20th century literature. Carol Sklenicka's superb biography, "Raymond Carver: A Life,"...
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Woz Writes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
From the New York Times, Stephen King on Raymond Carver . I have been debating whether or not to buy a copy of Carver's 'Collected Stories' and 'Beginners' . Reading King's review, I think I should take a punt.
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Stephen King looks at the short story master, the appalling treatment he gave the wife who made his career possible, the appalling treatment axe-wielding editor Gordon Lish gave his prose, and the alcoholism underlying it all....
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Two new books on Raymond Carver—a biography and a collection of stories—bring a "welcome and necessary corrective" to what we know of the short story master, writes Stephen King. Carol Sklenicka's A Writer's Life cuts Carver too much slack for his personal life—he was a "sometimes dangerous"...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol Sklenicka’s exhaustive and sometimes exhausting biography as a 3- or 4-year-old on a leash. “Well,...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A young filmmaker has adapted Tom Drury 's New Yorker short story, " Path Lights "--an excellent combination of Raymond Carver prose, hardboiled private detectives, and metafictional tricks. The film was financed through the David Lynch Foundation , a nonprofit founded by the legendary art house director to support arts and meditation. The film will debut on the foundation's...
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Hawkins Bizarre (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... to the microcosm of the patrons of a working class public house, all life is here. If you love Raymond Carver or Jon McGregor, you're in safe hands. I know Neil is proud of the stories in this collection so I invited him to Hawkins Bizarre to say a bit about e-publishing in general and the collection in particular. So, over to him. Alis has been kind enough to invite me on here to...
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The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... are born, not made" while in college, and I bought it, in part because I took a course from Raymond Carver and couldn't do what he did. (I didn't know at the time that there was more than one way to "do" fiction. I thought everybody had to pass through the same tunnel.) When I finally decided I had to try to learn to write, even if I never got published, I went after...
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Argie-Bargie (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Shared 7 links. For Bread or Soccer, Egypt Is Ready for a Riot Thierry Henry bit the hand that fed his good name | David Lacey Arrests in Europe Over Soccer Fixing Investigation Thierry Henry and football philosophy | Agnès Poirier Dinosaur Jr. announce 2010 Australian tour Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories Crackdown in Cairo as [...]
