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...critics dubbed Carver and his epigones Minimalists, a term the author disliked. His reasons for doing so extended beyond the normal artistic resentment at being pigeonholed. Carver knew, as others have discovered in the past few years, that heavy excisions were performed on his early stories by Gordon Lish, a fiction editor at Esquire in the '70s and then at Knopf during the preparation of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. That book, with 17 terse stories crammed into 159 pages, solidified Carver's reputation but left him feeling that he had ceded too much control...
Chomsky quoted from a memo written by anAmerican secretary of state in the lish a monopolyon power over the richest area of strategic andmaterial resources for leverage in world affairs,"said the author of Deterring Democracy...
...Gordon Lish...
...dying. These ) events merge in his mind with TV-news footage of prison violence in Peru: guards shooting inmates who are in the midst of stabbing one another. All these images commingle with recollections of passive, exhibitionistic childhood sex. That is virtually all that happens in Gordon Lish's Peru, an incantatory monologue of a novel. Even the murder may not have happened: police and psychiatrists figure nowhere in the narrative, as they would in the aftermath of a crime. Whether this slight, tightly focused book is a confession, a nightmare or a tease, its mesmeric voice requires, and rewards...
...replied Tsosie. "Are you Samoan?" "No," he said again. "Then what are you?" she let out in a high pitched voice. "I'm American Indian," he answered. "Oh" and she grew silent. Then she looked at him and said very slowly. "You-speak-Eng-lish-ve-ry-well...