Simple start - favorite line: With the money they saved they built a two-story mansion with balconies and gardens and high netting so that crabs wouldn't get in during the winter, and with iron bars on the windows so that angels wouldn't get in.
This story is the first that comes to my mind when I think of magical realism. That then reminds me of Big Fish, which, of course, makes me think of Man of the Hour and how Tim goddam Burton fucked up by not starting the song as the main character walked his dad down to the water.
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I don't know much about Raymond Carver, other than having read many of his stories and poems, and largely admiring them. But Stephen King wrote a very interesting review of a recent Carver biography and it goes into the huge extent to which Carver's stories were edited to the point that they were all but unrecognizable from what Carver had written. It amazed me.
I don't know much about Raymond Carver, other than having read many of his stories and poems, and largely admiring them. But Stephen King wrote a very interesting review of a recent Carver biography and it goes into the huge extent to which Carver's stories were edited to the point that they were all but unrecognizable from what Carver had written. It amazed me.
yes, his editor gordon lish is known to have had a huge influence on his style. i believe carver's wife is putting out a collection of his original writings pre-editing.
I don't know much about Raymond Carver, other than having read many of his stories and poems, and largely admiring them. But Stephen King wrote a very interesting review of a recent Carver biography and it goes into the huge extent to which Carver's stories were edited to the point that they were all but unrecognizable from what Carver had written. It amazed me.
yes, his editor gordon lish is known to have had a huge influence on his style. i believe carver's wife is putting out a collection of his original writings pre-editing.
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