Raymond Carver

(1938-1988)

American poet and short story writer.


Author's life and works

Literature Online Biography

Introduction from Books and Writers

“Prose as Architecture: Two Interviews with Raymond Carver”

"Matters of Life & Death: An Interview with Raymond Carver,"by William L. Stull from The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, January-February, 1988, pp. 14-17. Reproduced in Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select.


General Criticism

"Raymond Carver's 'epiphanic moments'." by Günter Leypoldt from Style, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, Fall 2001.

"Story and history in Raymond Carver." by Martin Scofield from Critique: studies in contemporary fiction, 40:3, 1999.

"Raymond Carver and Postmodern Humanism," by Arthur A. Brown from Critique, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, pp. 125-36. Discusses Raymond Carver's postmodernism on the basis of the stories "A Small Good Thing," "The Pheasant," "Put Yourself in My Shoes," and "Cathedral."

"The stories of Raymond Carver: the menace of perpetual uncertainty." by Jon Powell from Studies in Short Fiction, 31:4, 1994.

"The narrowed voice: minimalism and Raymond Carver." by Michael Trussler from Studies in Short Fiction, 31:1, 1994.

"Raymond Carver’s Inheritance from Ernest Hemingway ’s Literary Technique," by Arthur F. Bethea, from The Hemingway Review, Spring 2007.

"'Do You See What I'm Saying?': The Inadequacy of Explanation and the Uses of Story in the Short Fiction of Raymond Carver.” by Charles E. May from Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 31, pp. 39-49, 2001.

”The minimalist short story: its definition, writers, and (small) heyday.” by Roland Sodowsky from Studies in Short Fiction, Fall 1996.


Short Cuts: Selected Stories (1993)

"Raymond Carver," in Contemporary Authors. (A profile of the author's life and works)

"Raymond Carver, May 25, 1938-August 2, 1988"

"Overview: ‘Neighbors’ by Raymond Carver": in Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature, Book Two, Gale Research, 1995. Reproduced in Literature Resource Center.

Full text of Raymond Carver’s short story "They're Not Your Husband"

"Carver's They're Not Your Husband." by John Magee from Explicator, 53:3, 1995.

"'Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?': Voyeurism, Dissociation, and the Art of Raymond Carver" by David Boxer and Cassandra Phillips from The Iowa Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer, 1979.

"Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" by Arthur F. Bethea from Explicator, 56:3, 1998.

"Raymond Carver, Chapter 4: Early Fiction II: Furious Seasons" in Twayne's United States Authors. Includes comments on "So Much Water so Close to Home."

Full text of "A Small, Good Thing"

"On small, good things: Raymond Carver's modest existentialism." By Gadi Taub from Raritan: a quarterly review, Fall 2002.

"Overview: ‘A Small, Good Thing’ by Raymond Carver." from Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature, Book Two, Gale Research, 1995. Reproduced in Literature Resource Center.


"Cathedral”

"Cathedral" page at UC Davis

Norton Explorations
Includes links


Poems

Introduction to A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems, by Raymond Carver by Tess Gallagher, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Includes comments on "Lemonade."

Links

The International Raymond Carver Society

The Raymond Carver Website

Phil Carson's Raymond Carver Page

Other resources

Full text of Raymond Carver’s short story “They're Not Your Husband”