![]() The pair had worked together for years – Lish, a dashing, influential literary figure once known as Captain Fiction, had published Carver's first stories in Esquire magazine. Please hear me… I've looked at it from every side, I've compared both versions of the manuscripts… until my eyes are nearly to fall out of my head." The trouble was, Lish's version was so far from what Carver had sent him that Carver felt it was unrecognisable. ![]() ![]() "Dearest Gordon," it began, "I've got to pull out of this one. He'd been up all night worrying about the book they were working on together, and by the time Carver had finished writing there were more words in the letter than there were in many of the short stories for which he was known. Photograph: Bob Adelman/CorbisĪt 8am on 8 July 1980, Raymond Carver sat down to write a letter to his editor, Gordon Lish. Raymond Carver with his wife, the poet Tess Gallagher, photographed in 1984, in Syracuse, New York.
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