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Raymond Carver wrote an exquisite set of stories called What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Each story is quite short, only a page or two, and the prose is incredibly economical – there is hardly one wasted word. When I read the collection for the first time, it hit me like a freight train. A couple of years after WWTAWWTAL, he wrote a second collection, called Cathedral. He recycled the plots from several of his key earlier stories, expanding and clarifying them. In comparison, they were generally pretty washed out. It was as if he had piece-by-piece gone through and destroyed the incredible intensity of his earlier collection. Who knows – that might be for the best; Carver was one of those troubled geniuses, and maybe he felt better afterwards. Raymond Chandler got his start in the usual way for genre novelists – he began writing short stories for magazine publication. In the beginning, he consciously modelled his writing after Dashiell Hammett’s: taut prose that expected the

Short Stories and their Novelists | My One Contribution To The Internet My One Contribution To The Internet Skip to content Home About My work ← Social Networks Part 3 of the Observations from America: Tipping and Taxes → Short Stories and their Novelists Posted on 18/02/2013 by alasdair101 Raymond Carver wrote an exquisite set of stories called What We Talk About When We Talk About Love . Each story is quite short, only a page or two, and the prose is incredibly economical – there is hardly one wasted word. When I read the collection for the first time, it hit me like a freigh

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