Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway are both celebrated for their brutal minimalism – but how much do they owe their renown to the interventions of their editors? As two new 'original' versions of their work are published, the question of posthumous restoration has never been more vexed It's been a good year for dead writers: they have been an uncommonly busy bunch. This year sees the publication of "new" works by Raymond Carver, who died 20 years ago, Vladimir Nabokov, who died 30 years ago, and Ernest Hemingway, who died almost 50 years ago – as well as Roland Barthes, Jack Kerouac, William Styron, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut and even Mark Twain, while Ralph Ellison and David Foster Wallace have posthumous novels coming out next year. But are these posthumous editions doing writers any favours? Foster Wallace's editor... [read full story]
