Every meal -- any meal, even a loaf of bread -- can offer the opportunity for deeper connection, for a communion for people of every faith or of no particular faith at all. Bread is a food shared by every culture. It is a unifier. Combine a few simple ingredients, and it rises.
As a fitting finale to National Short Story Month, we asked the talented crew over at One Story to name their ten favorite epigrammatic tales. Tanya R...
Will Ferrell's life career has taken a dramatic turn.
The comedy icon stars in "Everything Must Go," the indie dramedy based on a Raymond Carver shor...
Will printed books cease to exist? I honestly don't know the answer. But I know that I miss the books I've lost along the way, the physical books with their notes, underlinings and associations.
In "Macbeth," Macduff famously asks, "What three things does drink especially provoke?" To which the porter replies, "Marry, sir, nose-painting, slee...
Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringin...
Narrative Magazine: Ann Beattie, whose novella "Walks with Men" has just been released, is a master writer who, along with Raymond Carver, inspired a ...
Giles Harvey
The New York Review of Books
"Collected Stories"
by Raymond Carver, edited and with notes by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll
Lib...
These last two weeks seem to be all about books by non-writers and we felt it was time to change the conversation. We asked writers--colleagues and fr...
After so many years, and so many lists, you might think the task of choosing the 10 Best Books would get easier. If only. The sublime story collection...
Twitphobes complain, "Do I really care if so-and-so picked up the kids or had to wait too long for a latte at Starbucks?" Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Maybe we can.
It's as a chronicle of Carver's growth as a writer that Sklenicka's book is invaluable, particularly after his career path crossed that of the editor ...