![]() ![]() The best of Raymond Carver’s fictions (I include his autobiographical essays and many of the deceptively complex narrative poems he wrote in the last few years) are among the most well-made (delicately torqued) and emo tionally accurate ever written by an American. Ray was dead at the age of fifty, the saw-filer’s son from Yakima, leaving us the example of his will to stay honest and compassionate, both in his art and in his conduct while dying. “I see in the paper this morning,” one of them said, “where your friend is dead.” He was talking about the New York Times. ![]() 391 pages, $19.95.) We were meeting on a patio in morning sunlight, on August 3, 1988, in Aspen, a creative writing class. Reviews Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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