Ropes of Sand

Lishing Carver

I don't know what happened, but I decided to post on the blog today. And it's going to be about the possibility that Tess Gallagher, the widow of Raymond Carver, will publish Carver's stories as they stood prior to Gordon Lish's involvement. The would-be book would be called Beginnings and stand as the "true" book behind What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, which would then stand (according to Gallagher) as "a part of the history." Read about it in the NY Times.

Remember when Dey House had all of those grey and broken filing cabinets in the basement? You could slip down there and read any story that had every appeared in workshop. People said there were Carver stories down there that looked vastly different than anything they'd ever seen, but these people were also drunked up and perhaps feeling a bit "expansive" themselves.

posted by SAS @ Wednesday, October 17, 2007