What's on My Bookshelf

This is the book that started my love of writing fiction. Any serious writer must have this collection on his/her bookshelf. I thought Hemingway was the master of packing a punch with short declarative sentences, but Raymond Carver has him beat.

Reading "I Could See the Smallest Things" is like watching a magic trick. I must've read this story a dozen times just to figure out how Carver pulls it off.