Have you noticed how much bloggers and media people like naming their work after Raymond Carver's excellent 1981 short story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?" They do.
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Where does a writer's voice come from? From the intuitive stylistic choices that the author makes on the page? We like to think so – it's what lends the most recognisable of prose styles their authenticity.
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Ambition and a little luck are good things for a writer to have going for him. Too much ambition and bad luck, or no luck at all, can be killing. There has to be talent.
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The rights and wrongs of publishing these stories before editor Gordon Lish took a scalpel to them can be debated, but there's no doubt that this publication has once again put Carver in the limelight – if he'd ever really been in the shadows.
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