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Stephen King looks at the short story master, the appalling treatment he gave the wife who made his career possible, the appalling treatment axe-wielding editor Gordon Lish gave his prose, and the alcoholism underlying it all....
David Vann's stark vision of a journey into desolation and self-pity is marked by greatness, writes Eilis O'Hanlon By Eilis O’Hanlon Sunday November 22 2009 'Why spend any part of a life in a cold place? It didn't make any...
'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write' A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big...
Raymond Carver's sometimes troubled life yielded an incredible trove of genre-busting fiction that not only stands on its own but also had an indelible influence on late-20th century literature. Carol Sklenicka's superb...
Raymond Carver A Writer's Life By Carol Sklenicka (Scribner; 578 pages; $35) Raymond Carver's life, as related in the exhaustive and definitive new biography by Carol Sklenicka, reads like a Raymond Carver story. That isn't...
Now that I am more kindly disposed toward The Paris Review—the literary institution founded by George Plimpton and a cohort of his pals back in the wild and crazy 1950s—since they have dropped the hyperbolic “DNA of literature”...
"You know, I'm a lazy son of a gun." So says Stephen King, a man who just published a story in the New Yorker and a review of the Raymond Carver biography in the New York Review of Books. Anything else? "Under the Dome," his...
Poetry for and About Dads to Use for Father's Day & Other Occasions As time goes on, it gets harder and harder to choose gifts for dad. "Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year" by Raymond Carver Carver, an American...
Larry French, Getty/afp - Getty Images Stephen King promotes "Under The Dome" at the North Point Boulevard Walmart on November 11, in Dundalk, Maryland. A mesmerizing master of the macabre, Stephen King finds inspiration for...
By using odd finds and street rubbish, this east London photographer creates stylised scenes with startling power Anne Hardy's photographs look like the illustrations to a Raymond Carver novel . They are strange retreats...
