Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loathing of murder is outweighed only by my abhorrence of the authority that claims the legal right to kill. Gerald James Gardner West Redding, Conn...
...wonderful life, crowded with friends from T.E. Lawrence to Ava Gardner. Seymour-Smith embraces them all in garlands of Graves' verse, notably "The Devil's Advice to Storytellers...
...edited by John Gardner George Mills, Stanley Elkin...
...once heartening and tragic. Almost every story in it is worth rereading, but the book is the last work of its editor, killed in a motorcycle accident 2½ months ago. For the most part shunning pieces that appeared in major periodicals ("all knife-flash, no blood"). Novelist John Gardner also sidelines such contemporary masters as John Updike, Donald Barthelme and Ann Beattie in favor of relative newcomers who display "a new seriousness...
...cream of Gardner's choices are stories that bridge these wild swings of mood and tone. Raymond Carver, the John Cheever of machinists and misfits, contributes a characteristically unusual short fiction. By the end of "Cathedral," the sarcastic hero, his eyes shut, is sharing a ballpoint pen with a blind visitor. Together they are drawing a cathedral. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house and I knew that. But I didn't feel inside anything," he reports. He says to the blind man, "It's really something." Readers of Best American Short Stories will...