Recommended Article: Carver and Gordon Lish Editorial Clippings
“The fact is that What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Alfred A. Knopf, 1981), the flagship of Carverian narrative, is one of the bibles of what was called dirty realism, and apparently a bible profaned by the New York editor Gordon Lish who, by wildly correcting and pruning the original of the seventeen texts that Carver gave him in 1980, helped to fabricate, shall we say, that laconic and elliptical style that Buford later baptized.”
Extract from an article by Javier Aparicio Maydeu published in Babelia. Read complete.
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