In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Stephen King has written a review of Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka.
King begins with a summation of Carver’s semi-amazing alcoholism and then moves on to a dissection of Carver’s relationship with his editor Gordon Lish.
It’s moving, the way King writes about Lish’s treatment of Carver and his work as if he’s mourning the ‘what could have been.’ Read more here.
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