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Eight of Tyler's 20 selections were first published in The New Yorker, but even that bastion of the shimmering sentence had to make room for the brusquer talents of Raymond Carver and his ilk. Carver describes scenes and moods so sparely he appears to be hoarding his words, as if expecting to put them to better use. From "Where I'm Calling From...
Jennifer Bartlett, born in Long Beach, Calif., in 1941 and a New Yorker for most of her working life, had never been there, and in 1979 she decided to get away from America for the winter by renting a villa in Nice. It turned out to be a dank monster, out of town but nowhere near the sea, with camphorated neighbors. The view consisted of a rectangular, tiled pool hedged with silvery artemisia bushes; at one end stood a garden-gnome lump of a reproduction putto, coyly peeing into the water. Beyond that, some straggly shrubs, a screen of cypresses...
...Ford. At any rate, TIME caught on, and it became part of the American and world scene, its presence reaffirmed in humor, fiction and legend. Its early style with its inverted prose and piled-up adjectives was endlessly spoofed, notably in a parody by Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind...
...Boston, the "Beam Technology Slate" is headed by Michael Gelber, a transplanted New Yorker who has become notorious for his exploits and accusations in an otherwise sedate mayoral race...
Author Raymond Carver, 45, has successfully bucked this trend toward the gentrification of short fiction. Furthermore, he has done so in part in The New Yorker, where three of the twelve stories in Cathedral originally appeared...