![]() ![]() In the thousand-plus pages of the Library of America edition of the collected stories of Carver, who died of lung cancer in 1988 at age 50, it’s easy to see why he had contempt for the term. First, at Esquire, Lish championed Carver’s work when the author was struggling with alcoholism, and he edited Carver’s career-making collections, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), which earned Carver a reputation as a widely influential “minimalist”, a tag he had no taste for. ![]() But even by those standards, Gordon Lish, in his dealings with revered short-story writer Raymond Carver, seems to have been a particularly evil genius.Īs Carver made his name in the ’70s by using everyday language to depict the often self-destructive lives of hard-drinking working-class characters, Lish was his principal editor. ![]() By definition, editors may be coldhearted blackguards bent on reducing the word counts and crushing the spirits of writers whose only noble intention is to follow their muse. ![]()
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