Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) is widely regarded to have been one of America’s greatest practitioners of the short-story form, and justifiably so. His tales of doomed blue-collar yearning and marital disconnection remain as biting, truthful, and vital as they were upon their first publication decades ago. As it turns out, his distinctive style was established surprisingly early, as this recently-discovered story — found among the yellowing papers of his third-grade teacher at Yakima Elementary School — will attest.

-- Jacob Lambert at The Millions.com

I never got around to reading Carver. I have never been a big fan of the short story form. However, I now think that I am going to have to do something about that.

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