Stephen King looks at the short story master, the appalling treatment he gave the wife who made his career possible, the appalling treatment axe-wielding editor Gordon Lish gave his prose, and the alcoholism underlying it all. Full Article at ArtsJournal

So says Stephen King: a man who just published a story in the New Yorker and a review of the Raymond Carver biography in the New York Review of Books. He also has a piece in the horror mag Fangoria and a poem in the current issue of Playboy. Full Article at Lawrence Journal World

Raymond Carver's sometimes troubled life yielded an incredible trove of genre-busting fiction that not only stands on its own but also had an indelible influence on late-20th century literature. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

Raymond Carver's life, as related in the exhaustive and definitive new biography by Carol Sklenicka, reads like a Raymond Carver story. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

Stephen King, who reviews Carol Sklenicka’s biography of Raymond Carver and Carver’s “Collected Stories” on this week’s cover, had read most of those stories by the mid-1990s. Full Article at The New York Times

Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol Sklenicka’s exhaustive and sometimes exhausting biography as a 3- or 4-year-old on a leash. Full Article at The New York Times