WED/4/6: Raymond CARVER (Links to an external site.), “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” “Beginners,” and “‘Beginners” as edited by Gordon Lish*; also online read: “Rough Crossings” and “Letters from Raymond Carver to Gordon Lish” (Albert Mobilio)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/rough-crossings (Links to an external site.)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/letters-to-an-editor (Links to an external site.)
Raymond Carver prompt from Albert Mobilio
Editing, Collaboration and the Myth of the Autonomous Author: Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love”
Albert Mobilio
· Are authors and artists the sole creators of their work? The notion of literature as function of individual expression is often idealized. (Yeats wrote about “young men, tossing on their beds,” who rhyme out in love’s despair.) But aren’t writers in constant creative dialogue—with peers, editors, publishers, and the literature that has influenced them? What is the nature of this dialogue?
