![]() ![]() ![]() Carver later regretted accepting Lish's edits and released another version of the collection without them (entitled "Beginners"), an extremely rare and highly public clash over who owns what when it comes to the art of writing. Said relationship is the stuff of high drama where the world of publishing is concerned: Lish had a reputation as a particularly severe and demanding editor, most infamously with regard to "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" - it is considered by some to be as much of a Lish book as it is a Carver book, if not moreso. ![]() The second half of the book, which is just as interesting if not moreso, is Evenson's meditations on the "inside baseball" aspects of the relationship between Carver and his longtime editor, Gordon Lish. These threads make up roughly the first half of the book. Though Evenson is primarily a renowned author of horror fiction, his craft analysis of Carver's (mostly) literary realist stories are sharp and well-observed. Brian Evenson's book, a must-listen for anyone interested in the process of writing and perfecting stories, is a sort of hybrid of memoir and textual exegesis, recounting his first encounters with Raymond Carver's seminal collection alongside his early journey as a young writer growing apart from the Mormon faith and institutions he grew up with. ![]()
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