This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern formalism. The twenty-five conversations gathered here, several available in English for the first time, include craft interviews, biographical portraits, self-analyses, and wide-ranging reflections on the current literary scene. Carver discusses his changing views of his widely influential fiction collections "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (1981), "Cathedral" (1983), and "Where I'm Calling From" (1988). Carver explains how at the height of his fame as a fiction writer he turned to poetry, producing three prize-winning books in as many years. Finally, in the closing months of his life, he talks about the coming of his last triumphant stories, the ones that secured his reputation.
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 | Clatskanie, Oregon - Page 133Carver portrays the American underclass with accuracy and compassion because he was once a part of it Bom in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938, ...more pages: xxi 120 151 205 215 246 |
| Port Angeles, Washington - Page 238When PW visits Carver in his Port Angeles, Wash., living room, the writer seems alert yet relaxed. He's a bulky man who moves slowly and carefully, ...more pages: 99 134 205 215 249 |
| Yakima - Page 135I was born in Oregon, and my parents moved to Yakima when I was two or three years old. I went to grade school and high school over there. ...more pages: 90 133 169 173 246 |
More | Cupertino, California - Page xxivUnemployed, RC returns to Cupertino, California. He remains there with his family for the next two years, during which he does little writing. ...more pages: xxiii 182 |
| Paradise, California - Page xxi1958 In August, RC moves his wife, daughter, and in-laws to Paradise, California, where he enters nearby Chico State College as a part-time student ...more pages: 246 |
| Arcata, California - Page 36Carver: When I was an undergraduate at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. One day, I had a short story taken at one magazine and a poem taken at ...more pages: xxii 251 |
| Iowa City, Iowa - Page xxivVermont He receives a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and from March through June, he and his wife live together on a trial basis in Iowa City. ...more pages: xxii 8 35 41 68 |
| Syracuse, New York - Page xxvRC is appointed Professor of English at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. He defers the appointment for one year in order to draw on his ...more pages: xxvii 68 118 149 240 |
| Eureka, California - Page xxiIn June, the Carvers move to Eureka, California, where RC works in the Georgia-Pacific sawmill. In the fall, he transfers to Humboldt State College in ...more pages: 3 246 |
| Sunnyvale, California - Page xxiiiIn June, the Carvers move to Sunnyvale, California. EC's story "Sixty Acres" is included in The Best Little Magazine Fiction, 1970, and his first ...more pages: 182 |
| Walla Walla, Washington - Page 73She was a student at a girls' school in Walla Walla, Washington, and not only knew something about literature, but also knew the correct way to hold a ...more pages: 34 |
| Palo Alto, California - Page xxiiIn August, the Carvers move to Palo Alto, California, where RC meets his future editor Gordon Lish. Martha Foley includes RC's story "Will You Please ...more pages: 5 21 45 120 234 |
| Sacramento - Page 120Later he worked as night janitor at the Mercy Hospital in Sacramento. He began to publish his stories and poems in small and then national magazines. ...more pages: 5 35 74 91 220 |
| El Paso - Page 247These four people in 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' could be sitting around a table in Albuquerque, or El Paso —more pages: xxiv 96 151 211 236 |
| Chico, California - Page 69Moving his family to Chico, California, he enrolled in a state university and paid his tuition doing odd jobs. From Chico, he travelled to Iowa to ...more pages: xxi |
| Missoula - Page 68When I was visiting some friends in Missoula. " If the hallmark of Carver's writing style is close attention to detail, he is extremely vague about ...more pages: 42 |
| Ben Lomond, California - Page xxiiilecturer in creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for 1971-72, and in August the Carvers move to Ben Lomond, California. ...more pages: 251 |
| Blacksburg, Virginia - Page 151This interview with Raymond Carver was conducted October 15, 1986, the night after his reading at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. ...more pages: 158 251 |
| Calistoga, California - Page 38Two weeks later I was back in a recovery center, this time at a place called Duffy's, in Calistoga, California, up in the wine country. ...more pages: 251 |
| Tucson - Page xxvIn September, RC and Gallagher move to Tucson, where she teaches at the University of Arizona. RC is appointed Professor of English at Syracuse ... |
| Chester, California - Page xxiHe and his mother then follow his father to Chester, California, where RC and his father both work in a sawmill. ... |
| San Francisco - Page 76There was a publishers' conference in San Francisco and one of the editors from the house which published my first collection of short stories invited ...more pages: 38 39 89 149 |
| San Jose, California - Page xxiiiFebruary, he is rehired by SRA as "advertising director," and the Carvers move to San Jose, California. 1970 RC receives a National Endowment for the ...more pages: 38 |
| Chicago - Page 36The story had been published in an obscure little magazine out of Chicago called December. The day the anthology came in the mail I took it to bed to ...more pages: xxvii 22 135 189 |
| Princeton - Page 22It starts with Cohn, with the boxing champion rather than with Princeton. " Fitzgerald was right on the money with the stuff he cut out Ezra Pound did ...more pages: 82 |
| Seattle - Page 243He has just finished seven weeks of radiation therapy in Seattle, near his home in Port Angeles, where he lives with the poet Tess Gallagher. ...more pages: xxviii 51 239 249 |
| New York City - Page 53The following is an interview conducted in New York City during the annual meeting of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. ...more pages: 54 63 169 215 250 |
| Plainfield, Vermont - Page xxiv1978 In January, RC teaches a two-week MFA course at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont He receives a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, ... |
| Wichita - Page 248but they could just as easily be in Wichita or Syracuse. Tuscaloosa!" Carver smiles. "Most of my stories take place indoors, anyway. ... |
| Albuquerque - Page 247These four people in 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' could be sitting around a table in Albuquerque, or El Paso — |
| Berkeley - Page xxiiAfter spending the summer in Berkeley, where RC works in the University of California library, the Carvers move to Iowa City, Iowa. ... |
| Binghamton - Page 48other for nearly twenty years and had only renewed our friendship after I'd moved to Syracuse and he was down there at Binghamton, seventy miles away. ...more pages: 251 |
| Rochester, New York - Page xixFor a minor interview from this period, see Stephen Wigler, "Extraordinary Insights Into Ordinary People," [Rochester, New York] Sunday Democrat and ... |
| Omaha - Page 135Omaha. or. New. York. City. And I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing in regard to my stories; there's no way to judge. ... |
| Houston - Page 135Houston,. or. Chicago. or. Omaha. or. New. York. City. And I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing in regard to my stories; there's no way ... |
| Dallas, Texas - Page xxivThat month, at a writers conference in Dallas, Texas, RC meets the poet Tess Gallagher. 1978 In January, RC teaches a two-week MFA course at Goddard ... |
| Reno, Nevada - Page xxviiiHe and Gallagher marry in Reno, Nevada, on 17 June. Working together, they assemble his last book of poetry, and in July they make a fishing trip to ... |
| Saratoga Springs, New York - Page xxviRC is elected a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, an arts retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York. 1983 Capra Press publishes Fires: Essays, Poems, ... |
| Boulder, Colorado - Page 34so we sent it to the office closest to us, to Boulder, Colorado, the circulation department The piece came back, finally, but that was fine. ... |
| Norfolk, VA - Page 24Jim Spencer/1982 From The Virginian-Pilot [Norfolk, VA], 1 October 1982, sec. B, 1, 9. Reprinted by permission of The Virginian-Pilot and The ... |
| Bellevue, Washington - Page 251214, 225 Beckett, Samuel, 199, 206 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 51, 128, 141, 220 Bellevue, Washington, 135 Bellow, Saul, 112 Ben Lomond, California, 91. |
| Paris - Page 22I was reading Flaubert's letters this spring, and once a week — when he was writing outside of Paris at this country house that he.more pages: 23 201 |
| London - Page 170The two are going abroad next year when a book of Carver's poetry is published in London, but they plan to keep Port Angeles as their home base. ...more pages: 132 |
| Brussels - Page 132 |
| York - Page 135York. City. And I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing in regard to my stories; there's no way to judge. I was rootless for so many years ... |
| Zurich - Page 198 |
References to this bookFrom Google ScholarEvan Brier - 2008 - Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Popular passagesIt's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things — a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring — with immense, even startling power. Page 107 The paper says the body will be taken to Keith & Keith Funeral Home pending arrangements. People are asked to come forward with information, etc. Two things are certain: 1) people no longer care what happens to other people; and 2) nothing makes any real difference any longer. Look at what has happened. Yet nothing will change for Stuart and me. Really change, I mean. We will grow older, both of us, you can see it in our faces already, in the bathroom mirror, for instance, mornings when we use the... Page 93 And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. Page xviii It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it, and the different kind of pleasure that's taken in reading something that's durable and made to last, as well as beautiful in and of itself. Page 52 I once sat down to write what turned out to be a pretty good story, though only the first sentence of the story had offered itself to me when I began it. For several days I'd been going around with this sentence in my head: "He was running the vacuum cleaner when the telephone rang." I knew a story was there and that it wanted telling. I felt it in my bones, that a story belonged with that beginning, if I could just have the time to write it. I found the time, an entire day— twelve, fifteen hours... Page 61 Did you have a good train ride?" I said. "Which side of the train did you sit on, by the way?" "What a question, which side! Page 117 In a review of the last book, somebody called me a "minimalist" writer. The reviewer meant it as a compliment But I didn't like it There's something about "minimalist" that smacks of smallness of vision and execution that I don't like. Page 44 There was an opening up. ..I'd gone as far as I could or wanted to go cutting everything down to the marrow, not just to the bone". Page 44 Seasons, 1977, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 1981, Cathedral, 1983, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, 1988; essays, poetry, short stories. Page 151 ... that world. A belief that the known world has reasons for existing, and is worth writing about — is not likely to go up in smoke in the process. This wasn't the case with the world I knew and was living in. My world was one that seemed to change gears and directions, along with its rules, every day. Time and again I reached the point where I couldn't see or plan any further ahead than the first of next month and gathering together enough money, by hook or by crook, to meet the rent and provide... Page 119 LessContents | 117 | | | | | 133 | | | | | 169 | | | | | 177 | | | | | 192 | | | | | 204 | | | | | 214 | | | | | 238 | | | |
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