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She doesn't want to withdraw "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" a title Lish conceived.

Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

She doesn't want to withdraw "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" a title Lish conceived.

Great Regulars: [Tess] Gallagher agrees that [Raymond] Carver Rus Bowden 2009

I also looked at the correspondence between Carver and Lish from the perspective of a book editor.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

The roster of authors whose early work appeared in Genesis West testifies to what Johnson called Lish’s “superior ability to spot good writers of every stripe”: Donald Barthelme, Gina Berriault, Leroi Jones Amiri Baraka, Tillie Olsen, and Grace Paley.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

Wolfe called Lish’s selections literary exercises in a nihilistic style written by people who themselves are unfamiliar with despair.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

DJ Marty Lish, the man with the aerosol and all the best tunes, pops up in guest slots all over town and recently supported LA soul rockers Vintage Trouble.

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My introduction to Carver came through the Lish-edited stories that to me signalled a break from the formal experiments and self-reflexivity of postmodern American fiction but did not merely return to old-fashioned storytelling.

Writing and Publishing 2010

It's these stories that offered a Raymond Carver engaged in his own kind of experimentation (how bare and uninflected can realism become while still maintaing our interest?), which as far as I can tell is mostly absent in the more elaborated but conventional Lish-less originals.

Writing and Publishing 2010

Attend a few classes by the legendary Gordon Lish.

Also | clusterflock 2009

I've never been a fan of wonton soup, but the chicken wrap sounds De-Lish!

My Crazy Life Lauren Thomas 2009