Word: eckermann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come out of necessity. His stories just barely escape the desperate world that they describe. There's no artifice--Carver wouldn't pass off a "Project for a Trip to China" (Sontag) as a story, or warp a story into the form of twisted aphorisms exchanged by Goethe and Eckermann (Barthelme)--there's only honest, hard work...