Parenthood: ode to ordinary devotion Nov 21, 2009
There is a smattering of blacks and Hispanics and Asians, but mostly there are whites; the subjects range from well-heeled types, posing on horses or yachts, to people posing next to their totalled car outside their motel-style apartment block as if they belong on the cover of a Raymond Carver book. As you would expect from internet demographics, there is a definite bias towards the '70s: some of the outdoorsy hippie couples, with their beards and braids and dogs and plaid, look almost... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Best Five Poems About Fathers Nov 19, 2009
"Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year" by Raymond Carver. Carver, an American poet and short story writer in the twentieth century, wrote this poem that shows not only a deep love for the speaker's father, but also expresses the fallibility and humanity of one's father. (Suite101.com)
There’s much to admire in ‘Raymond Carver: Collected Stories’ Nov 17, 2009
There s much to admire in Raymond Carver: Collected Stories - The Boston Globe ... By the time of his death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as the dean of American minimalist writers and the preeminent chronicler of an America many would prefer to ignore: a land of rented rooms and repossessed cars, late-night drunken phone calls, and demeaning jobs ... BOOK REVIEW RAYMOND CARVER: Collected Stories The Library of America, 1,019 pages, $40. (Boston Globe)
The Audio Book Club on Raymond Carver Nov 17, 2009
Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Raymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing" and "The Bath." - By Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe - Slate Magazine ... To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of Raymond Carver's "," click the arrow on the player below ... This month, the Audio Book Club tackles two versions of a Raymond Carver story"A Small Good Thing" and "The Bath." The former represents Carver's original vision, whereas the latter was heavily... (Slate)
Writing about writing Oct 25, 2009
To further entangle author and character, Irving creates obvious career parallels: Angel becomes an international success in the late 1970s with his fourth novel, as Irving did with his fourth, The World According to Garp ; Angel publishes an abortion novel called East of Bangor in the mid-1980s just as Irving published The Cider House Rules ; cameos are made by well-known colleagues of Irving s such as Kurt Vonnegut, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Marvin Bell, and Salman Rushdie; Boston,... (Boston Globe)
Jean Thompson writes of ‘common people’ in ‘Do Not Deny Me’ Oct 16, 2009
When Raymond Carver or Tobias Wolff or Alice Munro penetrate the souls of their subjects, what is revealed is the singularity, the playfulness, the evil, the canniness, the miraculous goodness - the uncommonness - of regular human beings. Trudging through one dreary tale after another in Do Not Deny Me, the reader becomes acquainted not with human beings but only their pale shadows. (Boston Globe)
The Best Short Stories Oct 2, 2009
"Nobody Said Anything" from Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver. Widely considered one of the greatest short-story writers in recent history, Raymond Carver was a master of uncovering through subtle turns rich emotional landscapes within the most mundane encounters. (Suite101.com)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life. by Carol Sklenicka (Simon ter). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New Fall Books Penned by Prizewinners Aug 28, 2009
An unpublished work by Michael Crichton, an unfinished novel by Vladimir Nabokov and unedited short stories by Raymond Carver are coming. Also, a reissue of Michael Jackson's memoir "Moonwalk" and a deluxe coffee-table edition about the late singer; short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut; authorized sequels to A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" and Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; the posthumous completion of a memoir by George Carlin and of a Robert Jordan novel, "The Gathering Storm,"... (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Another Great Short Story About a Cowardly Adulterer Jul 27, 2009
Nearly every story throbs with menace, which often appears in the form of an unsavory character that will feel very familiar to anyone who has read a lot of Raymond Carver or Flannery O'Connor. Seeing as children see but with an adult grasp of turpitude is another old device in short fiction. (Slate)
Detail and Vision in Carver's "Cath... Jul 10, 2009
Through precision and simple declarations, Raymond Carver shows literal and figurative sight as opposing each other before become one and the same. In Raymond Carver s short story Cathedral, (from the collection Cathedral, Vintage, ISBN: 0394712811, 1983) a present day man and wife are visited at their home by an old blind man (Robert) whom the wife used to assist. (Suite101.com)
The Power of Oomph Jun 2, 2009
Raymond Carver's , Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes, Richard Yates' the house specialty is the not-so-young-adult near-classic ... For all the supposedly reciprocal privileges of appearing alongside Raymond Carver (whose Cathedral appeared the same year), the book has never fully cast off the suspicions of its first unsympathetic critics, who taunted it with "Yuppieback" and "McWriting.". (Slate)
Litquake funding lures Ethan Canin to S.F. May 30, 2009
During the last 10 years, the young writers I teach have gone from writing small stories set in strip malls, which was the Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver influence, to huge novels that take place in Madagascar. They can just look up all kinds of information and photography on the Web. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
He made despair glamorous, but was Francis Bacon truly great? May 24, 2009
In literature, such writers as J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver routinely suffer such a fate, while in art, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, and Vincent Van Gogh are perhaps the classic cases. Francis Bacon, too, belongs in this category. (Boston Globe)
Book Review Cathedral by Raymond ... May 17, 2009
Book Review Cathedral by Raymond Carver. Book Review Cathedral by Raymond Carver ... After a career of focusing on the bleak exactitude of blue-collar life, Raymond Carver's last collection embraces the hope he and his characters may have always had. (Suite101.com)
Book Review The World's Shortest ... May 13, 2009
It's something Raymond Carver does perfectly most of the time and Ernest Hemingway does perfectly some of the time. Chekhov, in addition to being a smashing bore, can be either confusing or beautiful with his brevity. (Suite101.com)
Book Review No Heroics, Please May 11, 2009
Raymond Carver's uncollected writings show the flaws of a legend. The lack of enjoyment when reading this work is almost thrilling, as it shows the normally-genius Raymond Carver to not be the immortal many thought him to be ... Upon reading through Raymond Carver s (1938-1988) posthumously released anthology of uncollected writings, No Heroics, Please, one discovers that there s a certain joy in seeing his stories drag and his poems go nowhere. (Suite101.com)
Ultramarine by Raymond Carver May 9, 2009
Though Raymond Carver saw much success due to the strength of his short fiction, he fails to captivate with his poetry. Raymond Carver (1938-1988) is often hailed as a writer s writer, someone whose craft and voice are just as important as the story itself. (Suite101.com)
'Flash Forward 2008' is rewarding to look at Apr 19, 2009
Was Raymond Carver ever tempted to trade in his typewriter for a camera. Had he done so, he could have been Mac Mahon. (Boston Globe)
Return to short form - McInerney remains master of short story Apr 18, 2009
Although McInerney has become defined by his novels, consider that he once studied under the legendary short story writers Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. Like most novelists, I cut my teeth writing short stories, McInerney writes in his preface, and that s one habit I ve never been able to break. (Missoulian, MT)
Third Person Point of View Mar 18, 2009
In some minimalist fiction writing, which includes writers like Hemingway and Raymond Carver, a style of third person developed that didn t quite fit into the two categories of Omniscient and Limited. This style is called third person Objective. (Suite101.com)
Finding material from New Mexico idyll - Antonya Nelson says teaching full-time is best remove to create her art Mar 14, 2009
Nelson s work has long been admired by many of our finest writers Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace (who attended the University of Arizona master of fine arts program with her), Michael Chabon ... Students seem to be reading more for plot than they used to; male students used to like Raymond Carver; now they read Cormac McCarthy. (Missoulian, MT)
Heart and Soul Feb 15, 2009
Ochsner has won more than 20 awards for her writing, including the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Oregon Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award, the Raymond Carver Prize, and the Chelsea Award for Short Fiction. She was one of 50 writers awarded a 2006 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, allowing her to do research in Latvia and Russia for two novels-in-progress, The Persuasion of Water and Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. (Sioux City Journal)
