Mary's review of Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
I read most of the stories in here about six years ago, but I'm rereading "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" right now, and then maybe some others. It's because of this article from the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/repor...
and the version of that story that's also included that is supposedly Carver's preferred draft. The relationship between him and his editor is awfully unsettling to me, and I'd like to decide which version of the story I actually prefer. I just finished up the longer one from the magazine, and even though I haven't read it in so many years, I already think I prefer the version that was so worked over by the editor.
He edited out 40% of the story. Here's a link to the edits:
http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...
http://www.newyorker.com/repor...
and the version of that story that's also included that is supposedly Carver's preferred draft. The relationship between him and his editor is awfully unsettling to me, and I'd like to decide which version of the story I actually prefer. I just finished up the longer one from the magazine, and even though I haven't read it in so many years, I already think I prefer the version that was so worked over by the editor.
He edited out 40% of the story. Here's a link to the edits:
http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...
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