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Best Picture Winner Birdman Honors Raymond Carver

…s youth and has admired his work ever since. He talked about the influence Carver’s story had on him in a piece for Interview Magazine: “[Carver] died when he was 50 years old, and the only thing he was looking for was to feel loved…. The short story is about people lost and confused and looking for love. So in a way, thematically, the short story and the quest of Riggan Thomson are completely attached.” The hero’s quest for prestige and recogniti…

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Knopf Poem-a-Day: April 23, Raymond Carver’s “Eagles”

…isten to J. D. McClatchy reading “The Bandaged Shoulder.” Learn more about Raymond Carver’s Book Title and browse other titles by Raymond Carver. Excerpted from ALL OF US, © 1996 by Tess Gallagher; WHERE WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER © 1984, 1985 by Raymond Carver. Excerpted by permission of Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permiss…

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander

…y forefront of contemporary American fiction. The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. In the outlandishly dark “Camp Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a father to a son. “Sis…

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On Sale Now: Where the Money Went

…short story whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. In Where the Money Went, a collection The Miami Herald calls, “incisive, bracingly insightful,” Cantry surprises us with stories about love and the desertion of love, all written from a man’s point of view. The review continues, “Canty has great compassion for his sometimes-deluded, always-confused men: the college boy still reeling from having almost killed…

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10 Story Collections So Good They’ll Leave You Wanting More

…guide | Buy the Book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver “Splendid. . . . The collection as a whole, unlike most, begins to grow and resonate in a wonderful cumulative effect.” —Tim O’Brien, Chicago Tribune Book World In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award–winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short story w…

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15 Books to Celebrate Short Story Month

…tion that bears comparison to the short story’s greatest creators—Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Connor. Read an excerpt | Get the reader’s guide | Buy the book Dear Life by Alice Munro “One of the great short story writers not just of our time but of any time.” —The New York Times Book Review In story after story in this brilliant collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not ta…

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The Characters of There There

…rs in San Quentin for stabbing a man. Read almost the whole time he was in—Raymond Carver and William Faulkner, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Zeta Acosta and Ken Kesey. Calvin Johnson – young man; Native; down on his luck and staying with his sister, Maggie. Owes drug money to his brother, Charles (who works with Octavio). Jacquie Red Feather –half-sister of Opal; a substance abuse counselor who is herself newly sober. Gave a child up for adoption in…

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The Love of a Good Woman Reading Group Guide

…reading Alice Adams, To See You Again; Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Raymond Carver, Short Cuts; Anton Chekhov, Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories; Donald Creighton, The Passionate Observer; Robertson Davies, The Salterton Trilogy; Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours; Marian Engel, The Grassy Sea; James Joyce, Dubliners; William Maxwell, Collected Stories; Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Café and Collected Short Stories; Joyce Carol Oates,…

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‘Men in Blazers’ by Roger Bennett and Michael Davies

‘Men in Blazers’ by Roger Bennett and Michael Davies

…n its place alongside Seersucker, cheesesteaks, and the collected works of Raymond Carver as a symbol of our nation’s freedom and democracy. There is now more global football broadcast live in America than there is in England. With my New York cable service, I can watch English, Spanish, German, Italian, Brazilian, Colombian, Argentinian, and Mexican games as well as the domestic MLS. America has become World Soccer Heaven. You say soccer has been…

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